CVE-2017-0577

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the HTC touchscreen 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-3.18. Android ID: A-33842951.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.0 High

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2017-04-07

Last modified

2024-08-05

Affected products

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

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97348
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01