CVE-2017-0517

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek hardware sensor driver. This could allow a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. The vulnerability is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.