High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 8, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-0455

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader could help to enable a local malicious application to to execute arbitrary code within the context of the bootloader. This issue is rated as High because it is a general bypass for a bootloader level defense in depth or exploit mitigation technology. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-32370952. References: QC-CR#1082755.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernel
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Qualcomm/bootloaderllm-create
Google/Androidllm-create2 versions
Kernel-3.18+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: Kernel-3.18
- (no CPE)range: Kernel-3.18

Patches

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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/nvdPatch
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96812nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968nvd
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01nvd

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