CVE-2016-8451

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:...

CVE-2016-8451

CVE-2016-8451 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen driver that could allow a local malicious app to execute arbitrary code in kernel context on Android. The Synaptics driver is the affected component; root cause is privilege escalation within the driver enabling...