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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2016-10277 EUVD-2016-1462GHSA-92h6-9hqf-8fx7

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Motorola bootloader could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code wit…

Published May 12, 2017 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by google_android

Vendor: Google Product: Android Platform: Android

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Google Android Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

SUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 11 SP4 cluster-network 1.4-2.32.2.14 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
SLES 11 SP4 drbd 8.4.4-0.27.2.1 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
SLES 11 SP4 drbd-kmp 8.4.4-0.27.2.13 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
SLES 11 SP4 gfs2 2-0.24.2.14 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
SLES 11 SP4 kernel-docs 3.0.101-108.7.2 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
SLES 11 SP4 kernel-ec2 +8 3.0.101-108.7.1 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
SLES 11 SP4 ocfs2 1.6-0.28.3.4 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 11 SP4 kernel-ec2 +8 3.0.101-108.7.1 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
SLE Real Time 11 SP4 cluster-network 1.4-2.32.2.14 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
SLE Real Time 11 SP4 drbd-kmp 8.4.4-0.27.2.13 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
SLE Real Time 11 SP4 gfs2 2-0.24.2.14 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1
SLE Real Time 11 SP4 ocfs2 1.6-0.28.3.4 SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 2 repositories

  • alephsecurity/initroot ★ 85 · Jun 6, 2017

    Motorola Untethered Jailbreak: Exploiting CVE-2016-10277 for Secure Boot and Device Locking bypass

  • leosol/initroot ★ 5 · Feb 4, 2019

    Exploiting CVE-2016-10277 for Secure Boot and Device Locking bypass

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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