CVE-2016-8431

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-32402179. References: N-CVE-2016-8431.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2017-01-12

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

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

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95236
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html