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CVE-2016-6745

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Published: Nov 25, 2016Modified: May 6, 2026

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7.8
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 5.9
Source: NVD

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen driver in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Android ID: A-31252388.

Affected (2)

Products: Google: Android
Google
1 product
Android
Configuration A
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Google
Android
Up to 7.1.0
Android
Version 7.0

Related CWEs

CWE-264
CWE-264

References (4)

Source: security@android.com
Source: security@android.com
PatchVendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
PatchVendor Advisory

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