CVE-2016-8449

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions Kernel-3.10

Description The issue is related to an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver, which could allow a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. The vulnerability is associated with inadequate access control to certain functions, potentially allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code through a malicious application.

Recommendations For Android version Kernel-3.10, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.