CVE-2017-0520

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm crypto engine 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: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31750232. References: QC-CR#1082636.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.0 High

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2017-03-08

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-120

Affected products

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

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96804
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=eb2aad752c43f57e88ab9b0c3c5ee7b976ee31dd
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html