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CVE-2016-6761

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-29421682. References: QC-CR#1055792.

  • Published: Jan 12, 2017
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2016-6761
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 9.3
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

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Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 3.10 3.10.x
linux / linux_kernel 3.18 3.18.x