CVE-2016-6762
First published: Mon Dec 05 2016(Updated: )
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libziparchive library could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-31251826.
Credit: security@android.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Google Android | =5.0 | |
| Google Android | =5.0.1 | |
| Google Android | =5.0.2 | |
| Google Android | =5.1 | |
| Google Android | =5.1.0 | |
| Google Android | =5.1.1 | |
| Google Android | =6.0 | |
| Google Android | =6.0.1 | |
| Google Android | =7.0 |
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Reference Links
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/1ee4892e66ba314131b7ecf17e98bb1762c4b84c
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/3656958a16590d07d1e25587734e000beb437740
- https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2016-12-01 (Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94700
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html
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- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
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- agent/author
- agent/description
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- collector/android-source
- source/Android
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/tags
- agent/event
- agent/source
- vendor/google
- canonical/google android
- version/google android/5.0
- version/google android/5.0.1
- version/google android/5.0.2
- version/google android/5.1
- version/google android/5.1.0
- version/google android/5.1.1
- version/google android/6.0
- version/google android/6.0.1
- version/google android/7.0