CVE-2016-6784: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek driver 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. Product: Android. Versions: N/A. Android ID: A-31350755. References: MT-ALPS02961424.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 6.0.1 only

Published 2017-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.