CVE-2016-6707

EPSS 4.2%

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.

Affected products

Google Inc. · Android

public PoCs found — 2

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References

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