High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 25, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-6743
CVE-2016-6743
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen 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-30937462.
Affected products
2- Range: Android Kernel-3.10
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94131nvd
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