High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Mar 8, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-0517

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek hardware sensor 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: N/A. Android ID: A-32372051. References: M-ALPS02973195.

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Affected products

Google/Android3 versions
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=7.1.1
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: n/a
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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96799nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968nvd
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01nvd

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