MediaTek chip vowe local privilege elevation vulnerability

MediaTek Inc. is the world’s fourth largest fab semiconductor company and a market leader in mobile devices, smart home applications, wireless connectivity technologies and IoT products, with approximately 1.5 billion devices a year with MediaTek chips built into them available around the world. Several MediaTek chips have elevation of privilege vulnerabilities, the vulnerability stems from the lack of boundary checks in vowe resulting in out-of-bounds writes, which can be exploited by attackers for local elevation of privilege.