High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Feb 8, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2016-8420
CVE-2016-8420
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm 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-32451171. References: QC-CR#1087807.
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References
3- www.securityfocus.com/bid/96047nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-02-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1037798nvd
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