CVE-2016-8455

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom Wi-Fi 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. Android ID: A-32219121. References: B-RB#106311.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom Wi-Fi 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. Android ID: A-32219121. References: B-RB#106311.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2017-01-12 20:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2017-01-24 00:06:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 3.10

3.10

References

95240

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html

Vendor Advisory

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