Security Advisory

CVE-2016-8458

7
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen 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-31968442.
Published Date January 12, 2017
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory