CVE-2016-6744

CVE-2016-6744 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen driver affecting Google Android versions before 2016-11-05. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel context. Rated as High severity (CVSS 7.8), it requires initial compromise of a privileged process, but successful exploitation could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.