CVE-2016-6736
HIGHAndroid < 7.0 - Elevation of Privilege via NVIDIA GPU Driver
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2016-6736. PoCs published by codecat007.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The PoC demonstrates a race condition in the NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver by rapidly opening/closing channels and submitting commands, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. It uses multiple threads to trigger the race condition, targeting the HOST1X_CLASS_VIC class.
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-30953284. References: NVIDIA N-CVE-2016-6736.
Exploits (1)
The PoC demonstrates a race condition in the NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver by rapidly opening/closing channels and submitting commands, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. It uses multiple threads to trigger the race condition, targeting the HOST1X_CLASS_VIC class.
References (2)
Scores
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H