High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 8, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2016-8479

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31824853. References: QC-CR#1093687.

Affected products

Google/Androidv5
Range: Kernel-3.10

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96801nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968nvd
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01nvd

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