CVE-2016-8417

Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm camera 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-32342399. References: QC-CR#1088824.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 3.10, 3.18

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96832
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=01dcc0a7cc23f23a89adf72393d5a27c6d576cd0
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96832
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=01dcc0a7cc23f23a89adf72393d5a27c6d576cd0

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