CVE-2017-6248 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA sound driver affecting Android devices. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel's context. Rated as High severity (CVSS 7.0), successful exploitation requires user interaction and prior compromise of a privileged process, but could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:7.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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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