Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA libomx library libnvomx could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which...

CVE-2016-6790

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA libomx library libnvomx could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which...

CVE-2016-6790

CVE-2016-6790 affects NVIDIA libomx (libnvomx) in Android devices (notably Pixel C) with kernel 3.18. Root cause: NVIDIA OpenMAX component copies an input buffer to an output buffer without validating the input size, enabling local exploitation; the NVIDIA bulletin labels this as a high‑severity ...