High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 25, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-6736
CVE-2016-6736
Description
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-30953284. References: NVIDIA N-CVE-2016-6736.
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Affected products
6- Range: <2016-11-05
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-flo@3.4.0-5.23?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenialpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-mako@3.4.0-7.44?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial
>= 0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
Patches
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References
2- source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94140nvd
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