The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability in the services/camera/libcameraservice/device3/Camera3Device.cpp component of the Android operating system exists due to the lack of checks for template identifiers. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to increase their privileges through a specially creat...

CVE-2016-2449

services/camera/libcameraservice/device3/Camera3Device.cpp in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-05-01 does not validate template IDs, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated by obtainin...