High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Mar 8, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-0524

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen 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: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-33002026.

Affected products

Linux/Kernel2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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/96808nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968nvd
source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01nvd

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