CVE-2016-3916

HIGH

Android Camera Service - Privilege Escalation via Crafted Application

Title source: llm

Description

camera/src/camera_metadata.c in the Camera service in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-10-01, and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30741779.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93294

Issue Tracking, Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/media/+/8e7a2b4d13bff03973dbad2bfb88a04296140433

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0053

EPSS Percentile 40.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (23)

google/android 4.0

google/android 4.0.1

google/android 4.0.2

google/android 4.0.3

google/android 4.0.4

google/android 4.1

google/android 4.1.2

google/android 4.2

google/android 4.2.1

google/android 4.2.2

... and 13 more

Published Oct 10, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026