Google Android Mediatek Driver CVE-2017-0616 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:98189

Info

Google Android Mediatek Driver CVE-2017-0616 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 98189
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-2017-0616
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 01 2017 12:00AM
Updated: May 23 2017 04:24PM
Credit: Gengjia Chen (@chengjia4574) and pjf of IceSword Lab, Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd
Vulnerable: Google Android 0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Google Android Mediatek Driver CVE-2017-0616 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Google Android is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges within the context of the kernel.

This issue is tracked by Android Bug ID- -34470286.

Exploit / POC

Google Android Mediatek Driver CVE-2017-0616 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently, we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

Google Android Mediatek Driver CVE-2017-0616 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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