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CVE-2016-8451
HIGH · CVSS 7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-12T20:59:01.233 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:54:23.313

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen 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-3.4. Android ID: A-32178033.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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