CVE-2016-6735
HIGHAndroid < 2016-11-05 - Elevation of Privilege in NVIDIA GPU Driver
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2016-6735. PoCs published by codecat007.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This PoC exploits a race condition in the NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver (CVE-2016-6735) by rapidly opening and closing channels while spawning threads to trigger a use-after-free. The exploit targets the `DRM_IOCTL_TEGRA_OPEN_CHANNEL` and `DRM_IOCTL_TEGRA_CLOSE_CHANNEL` operations to achieve local privilege escalation.
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU 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 Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Android ID: A-30907701. References: NVIDIA N-CVE-2016-6735.
Exploits (1)
This PoC exploits a race condition in the NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver (CVE-2016-6735) by rapidly opening and closing channels while spawning threads to trigger a use-after-free. The exploit targets the `DRM_IOCTL_TEGRA_OPEN_CHANNEL` and `DRM_IOCTL_TEGRA_CLOSE_CHANNEL` operations to achieve local privilege escalation.
References (2)
Scores
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H