Categories: Elevation of privilege vulnerability in HTC touchscreen driver
Details: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the HTC touchscreen 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. Android ID: A-32089409. [NIST-CVE-2017-0563]
Discovered by: Roee Hay (@roeehay) of Aleph Research, HCL Technologies [Discovery-CVE-2017-0563] on: Unknown