CVE-2016-6742

CVE-2016-6742 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting the Synaptics touchscreen driver in Android versions prior to 2016-11-05. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel's context. Rated as High (CVSS 7.8), it requires an attacker to first compromise a privileged process, but successful exploitation could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.