An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Android ID: A-30977990. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#977684.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: google_android

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

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:36:29.462Z

Reserved: 2016-08-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-6729

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-11-25T16:59:30.987

Modified: 2016-11-28T20:34:47.747

Link: CVE-2016-6729

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