Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the...

CVE-2016-8431

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the...

CVE-2016-8431

CVE-2016-8431 describes a local elevation of privilege in the NVIDIA GPU driver on Android (Android Kernel 3.18; Pixel C). The vulnerability can allow a local malicious process to execute arbitrary code in kernel context, with potential for permanent device compromise. Connected documents indicat...