High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 25, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-6739

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm camera 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-30074605. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#1049826.

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Affected products

Google/Android4 versions
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=7.1.0
- cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: < 2016-11-05
- (no CPE)range: Kernel-3.10
Qualcomm/camera driverllm-fuzzy
Range: < 2016-11-05
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-flo@3.4.0-5.23?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial pkg: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

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94142nvd

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