UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6744

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6744
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6744.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6744
Upstream
Published
2016-11-25T16:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:45:52Z
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
  • Ubuntu - high
Summary
[none]
Details

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-30970485.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / android

Package

Name
android
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/android@20160330-0939-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

Other
20150818-1500-0ubuntu2
20150818-1500-0ubuntu3
20160307-0742-0ubuntu3
20160330-0939-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "android"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "android-copyright"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "android-emulator"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "ubuntu-emulator-images"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1",
            "binary_name": "ubuntu-emulator-runtime"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6744.json"