An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver 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-30907120. References: NVIDIA N-CVE-2016-6734.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: google_android

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:36:29.471Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-6734

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-11-25T16:59:36.663

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-6734

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