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CVE-2016-2434 (GCVE-0-2016-2434)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-09 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:24
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Summary
The NVIDIA video driver in Android before 2016-05-01 on Nexus 9 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 27251090.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-05-02 00:00
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