Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Mar 8, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-8478

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Qualcomm video driver could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-32511270. References: QC-CR#1088206.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernel
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Google/Androidllm-create2 versions
Kernel-3.18+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: Kernel-3.18
- (no CPE)range: Kernel-3.18
Qualcomm/video driverllm-fuzzy
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-flo@3.4.0-5.23?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-mako@3.4.0-7.44?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial
>= 0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0

Patches

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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/nvdPatch
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96734nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968nvd
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01nvd

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