Google Nexus Qualcomm Qualcomm CP Access Driver CVE-2017-0583 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Google Nexus is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability.

Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated kernel privileges.

This issue is being tracked by Android Bug ID A-32068683.

Information

Bugtraq ID: 97368
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-2017-0583

Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 03 2017 12:00AM
Credit: The vendor reported the issue.
Vulnerable: Google Pixel XL 0
Google Pixel 0
Google Nexus 6P
Google Nexus 5X
Google Android One 0
Google Android 0

Not Vulnerable:

References:

• Android Homepage (Google)
  
• Android Security Bulletinâ??April 2017 (Android )
  
• defconfig: msm: Disable CONFIG_CP_ACCESS64 (CodeAurora)
  

Source: www.securityfocus.com