An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-11-01, and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 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 are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Android ID: A-30229821.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6704
Reference (s):
- BID:94134
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94134
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html