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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 25, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-6740

CVE-2016-6740

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-30143904. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#1056307.

Affected products

3
  • Google/Android3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=7.1.0
    • cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: Kernel-3.10

Patches

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