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CVE-2016-8427

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Description

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-3.10. Android ID: A-31799885. References: N-CVE-2016-8427.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published1/12/2017

Last Modified4/20/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

linux:linux_kernel

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

References

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4561(security@android.com)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95231(security@android.com)

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html(security@android.com)

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4561(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95231(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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