CVE-2016-8417 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm camera driver affecting Android devices running Linux Kernel versions 3.10 and 3.18. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel context. Rated as High severity (CVSS 7.0), it requires compromising a privileged process first and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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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