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CVE-2016-8479

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• CVE numbers: CVE-2016-8479 [Bulletin-CVE-2016-8479]
• Coordinated disclosure?: unknown
• Categories: Elevation of privilege vulnerability in Qualcomm GPU driver
• Details: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm 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 operating system to repair the device. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31824853. References: QC-CR#1093687. [NIST-CVE-2016-8479]
• Discovered by: Yuan-Tsung Lo of C0RE Team [Discovery-CVE-2016-8479] on: Unknown
• Reported on: 2017-03-01 [Bulletin-CVE-2016-8479]
• Fixed on: Unknown
• Fix released on: Unknown
• Affected versions: regex:
• Affected devices:
• Affected manufacturers: Qualcomm [Bulletin-CVE-2016-8479]
• Fixed versions:
• Submission: by: Daniel Carter, on: 2019-07-26