Vulnerability CVE-2016-8417

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2016-8417 (CCN-123179)

Assigned:

2016-10-05

Published:

2017-01-03

Updated:

2017-07-17

Summary:

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 Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and is mitigated by current platform configurations. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-32342399. References: QC-CR#1088824.

CVSS v3 Severity:

7.0 High (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
6.1 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): High Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): High Integrity (I): High Availibility (A): High

7.8 High (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
6.8 Medium (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Local Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): High Integrity (I): High Availibility (A): High

CVSS v2 Severity:

7.6 High (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): High Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Complete Integrity (I): Complete Availibility (A): Complete

6.8 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Local Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): Complete Integrity (I): Complete Availibility (A): Complete

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-264

Vulnerability Consequences:

Gain Privileges

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2016-8417

Source: CCN
Type: Android Open Source Project
Android Security BulletinMarch 2017

Source: BID
Type: UNKNOWN
96832

Source: CCN
Type: BID-96832
Google Nexus Qualcomm Camera Driver CVE-2016-8417 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Source: SECTRACK
Type: UNKNOWN
1037968

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
android-cve20168417-priv-esc(123179)

Source: CONFIRM
Type: UNKNOWN
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01

Source: MISC
Type: Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html

Source: CONFIRM
Type: Patch
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=01dcc0a7cc23f23a89adf72393d5a27c6d576cd0

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/h:google:nexus_6:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/h:google:android_one:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/h:google:nexus_5x:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/h:google:nexus_6p:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

OR cpe:/h:google:pixel:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201684170000000	V	CVE-2016-8417 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2017-03-08
oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20168417000	V	CVE-2016-8417 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - medium.	2017-03-07
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20168417000	V	CVE-2016-8417 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2017-03-07

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