CVE-2016-6736 is a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver for Android devices, affecting versions prior to November 5, 2016. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel, potentially leading to a permanent device compromise requiring a full operating system reflash. While rated as high severity (CVSS 7.8), there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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