CVE-2016-6738

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6738

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6738.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6738

Published

2016-11-25T16:59:41.053Z

Modified

2026-03-14T09:20:25.765552Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm crypto engine 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-30034511. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#1050538.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6738.json"

unresolved_ranges

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            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.1.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]