High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 13, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

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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Affected products

Google/Android
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=7.0
Google/libstagefrightllm-create
Range: <2016-11-01
Google/mediaserverllm-create
Range: <2016-11-01

Patches

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References

android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/1d4feebdb85db46e138530f360d9ff2490e14353nvdIssue TrackingPatch
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94134nvd

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