CVE Published: 25/11/2016 |
CVE Updated: 06/08/2024 |
CVE Year: 2016 Source: google_android |
Vendor: Google Inc. |
Product: Android Status : PUBLISHED
CVE-2016-6731 Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU 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 Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Android ID: A-30906023. References: NVIDIA N-CVE-2016-6731.