A vulnerability was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (affected version not known). It has been rated as very critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component NVIDIA GPU Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 11/07/2016 as Android Security Bulletin - November 2016 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is shared at source.android.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-6731 since 08/11/2016. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k 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.MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k.

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

See 87972, 93436, 93466 and 93476 for similar entries.

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• Android

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