High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Jan 12, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-6780

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the HTC sound codec driver 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. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10. Android ID: A-31251496.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernel
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Google/Androidllm-create2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: Kernel-3.10
Htc/sound codec driverllm-fuzzy

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References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/94675nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory

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