CVE-2016-8447

Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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-31749463. References: MT-ALPS02968886.

Affected products

Android: through 7.1.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95229
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95229
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html

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