Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in MediaTek Components: Arbitrary Code Execution in Kernel Context

CVE-2016-8448 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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-31791148. References: MT-ALPS02982181.

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