CVE-2016-8394 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen driver affecting Android devices running Linux Kernel 3.10. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel's context. Rated High with a CVSS score of 7.0, exploitation requires compromising a privileged process, indicating high attack complexity but leading to high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not actively exploited or widely known.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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