CVE-2016-6742

CVE-2016-6742 describes an elevation of privilege in the Synaptics touchscreen driver on Android prior to 2016-11-05, enabling a local malicious app to execute arbitrary code in the kernel if it can compromise a privileged process. Affected: Android devices with affected Synaptics driver. Root ca...

CVE-2016-6742

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen 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...