CVE-2016-8458

published 2017-01-12

CVE-2016-8458: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the…

Priority P4 32 high 7 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC H PR N UI R S U C H I H A H

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen 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, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31968442.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
google	android	—	—
google_inc	android	—	—
google_inc	android	—	—
linux	linux_kernel	—	—
linux	linux_kernel	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.0 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.6 HIGH AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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