Privilege escalation vulnerability in Android Camera service (CVE-2016-xxxx)

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Android Camera service (CVE-2016-xxxx)

CVE-2016-3916 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

camera/src/camera_metadata.c in the Camera service in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-10-01, and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30741779.

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