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CVE-2016-6707

UNKNOWN
Published 2016-11-25T16:00:00
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Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in System Server in Android 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 High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Android ID: A-31350622.

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Affected Products

Google Inc.

Android

Affected Versions:

Android-6.0 Android-6.0.1 Android-7.0

GitHub Security Advisories

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⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-jcfm-9hmq-23cj

Advisory Details

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in System Server in Android 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 High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Android ID: A-31350622.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6707
WEB https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928
WEB https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html
WEB https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
WEB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874
WEB http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94164

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 14, 2022, Modified: April 12, 2025

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94164
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40874/
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
Published: 2016-11-25T16:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-06T01:36:29.542Z
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