Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver on Android

Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver on Android

CVE-2016-8466 · HIGH Severity

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom Wi-Fi driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and is mitigated by current platform configurations. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31822524. References: B-RB#105268.

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