Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package android-platform-system-core (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-ANDROIDPLATFORMSYSTEMCORE-664241
- published12 Jan 2017
- disclosed12 Jan 2017
Introduced: 12 Jan 2017
CVE-2016-6762 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.
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.
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.