CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8456

Published: Jan 12, 2017 | Modified: Jan 24, 2017
CVSS 3.x
7
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.6 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-32219255. References: B-RB#105580.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 3.10 (including) 3.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.18 (including) 3.18 (including)

References