Categories: Elevation of privilege vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU driver
Details: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver in Android before 2016-11-05 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. Android ID: A-30906694. References: NVIDIA N-CVE-2016-6733. [NIST-CVE-2016-6733]
