CVE-2016-6790: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31251628. References: N-CVE-2016-6790.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 3.18 only

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