High-Risk Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Qualcomm Media Codecs on Android

CVE-2016-6758 · HIGH Severity

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Qualcomm media codecs could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-30148882. References: QC-CR#1071731.

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