Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader 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-30977990. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#977684.
Published: 2016-11-25
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-7632 An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader 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-30977990. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#977684.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: google_android

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:36:29.462Z

Reserved: 2016-08-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-6729

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Status : Modified

Published: 2016-11-25T16:59:30.987

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-6729

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