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High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Jan 12, 2017· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-6791

CVE-2016-6791

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm sound 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, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31252384. References: QC-CR#1071809.

Affected products

3
  • Linux/Kernel2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Google/Androidv5
    Range: Kernel-3.10

Patches

0

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