CVE-2016-8420

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi 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:...

CVE-2016-8420

The CVE-2016-8420 entry describes an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm Wi‑Fi driver for Android kernels (Kernel-3.10 and Kernel-3.18). A local malicious application could execute arbitrary code in kernel context after compromising a privileged process. The description lists And...