CVE-2016-8447

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in MediaTek components, including the thermal driver and video 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-31749463. References: MT-ALPS02968886.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.0 High

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2017-01-12

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Android (Google)
• Android (Google Inc.)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95229
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html