CVE-2016-8427 is a critical elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver affecting Android devices running Kernel-3.10. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel's context. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability presents a significant risk of permanent device compromise, potentially requiring an OS reflash. 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.