Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Android Mediaserver

CVE-2016-6717 · HIGH Severity

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Mediaserver 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 2016-11-01, and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires exploitation of a separate vulnerability. Android ID: A-31350239.

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