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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2017-0505 EUVD-2017-0859GHSA-x475-wghp-f7r8

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in MediaTek components, including the M4U driver, sound driver, touchscreen driver, GPU driver, and…

Published Mar 8, 2017 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by google_android

Vendor: Google Product: Android Package: android Platform: Android Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in MediaTek components, including the M4U driver, sound driver, touchscreen driver, GPU driver, and Command Queue 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: N/A. Android ID: A-31822282. References: M-ALPS02992041.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Google Android — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

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Ubuntu

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS android No fix yet —

Public exploits

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