High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 13, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-6706
CVE-2016-6706
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libstagefright in Mediaserver in Android 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-31385713.
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