Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in NVIDIA libomx Library

CVE-2016-6789 · HIGH Severity

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA libomx library (libnvomx) 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-3.18. Android ID: A-31251973. References: N-CVE-2016-6789.

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