CVE-2016-6789 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA libomx library (libnvomx) affecting Android devices running Kernel-3.18. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within a privileged process. Rated as High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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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