CVE-2017-0521

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm camera driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-32919951. References: QC-CR#1097709.

• CWE-190

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96951
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=dbe4f26f200db10deaf38676b96d8738afcc10c8Patch
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96951
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=dbe4f26f200db10deaf38676b96d8738afcc10c8Patch

Published

Mar 8, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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