High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Jan 12, 2017· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-8466
CVE-2016-8466
Description
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 Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and is mitigated by current platform configurations. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31822524. References: B-RB#105268.
Affected products
2Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
2- source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/95242nvd
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