CVE-2016-8417

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm camera driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and is mitigated by current platform configurations. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-32342399. References: QC-CR#1088824.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.0 High

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2017-03-08

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Android (Google Inc.)
• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96832
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=01dcc0a7cc23f23a89adf72393d5a27c6d576cd0
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html