Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Driver for Android

CVE-2016-8449 · HIGH Severity

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

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 High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10. Android ID: A-31798848. References: N-CVE-2016-8449.

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