CVE-2017-0433
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the touchscreen chipset. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10. Android ID: A-31913571.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux-kernel | 3.10 | affected | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96061
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037798
- https://alephsecurity.com/vulns/aleph-2016001
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-02-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96061
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037798
- https://alephsecurity.com/vulns/aleph-2016001
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-02-01.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.