An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm camera 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 High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Android ID: A-30143904. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#1056307.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6740
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94142