CVE-2017-0546

N/A
Published: April 7, 2017 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:57 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAndroid

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in SurfaceFlinger could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1. Android ID: A-32628763.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

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References (3)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97341

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476

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