Categories: Elevation of privilege vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU driver
Details: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA 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-3.18. Android ID: A-31992762. References: N-CVE-2017-0337. [NIST-CVE-2017-0337]
Discovered by: Qidan He (何淇丹) (@flanker_hqd) of KeenLab, Tencent (腾讯科恩实验室) [Discovery-CVE-2017-0337] on: Unknown