Categories: Elevation of privilege vulnerability in Motorola bootloader
Details: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Motorola bootloader could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the bootloader. 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-33840490. [NIST-CVE-2016-10277]
Discovered by: Roee Hay (@roeehay) of Aleph Research, HCL Technologies [Discovery-CVE-2016-10277] on: Unknown