A vulnerability has been found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (version now known) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Mediaserver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 11/07/2016 by Mark Brand with Trend Micro as Android Security Bulletin - November 2016 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is available at source.android.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2016-6704 since 08/11/2016. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/30/2022). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 94134†). The entries VDB-87972, VDB-93436, VDB-93466 and VDB-93476 are pretty similar.

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