An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen 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 High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Android ID: A-30799828.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: google_android

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

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:36:29.645Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-6742

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-11-25T16:59:45.773

Modified: 2016-11-28T20:35:02.280

Link: CVE-2016-6742

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