Access Restriction Bypass Affecting android-platform-system-core package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-ANDROIDPLATFORMSYSTEMCORE-338509
  • published12 Jan 2017
  • disclosed12 Jan 2017

Introduced: 12 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-6762  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:16.04 android-platform-system-core.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream android-platform-system-core package and not the android-platform-system-core package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libziparchive library 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. Product: Android. Versions: 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0. Android ID: A-31251826.