Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in NVIDIA I2C HID Driver for Android

CVE-2017-0325

What is CVE-2017-0325?

The NVIDIA I2C HID driver contains an elevation of privilege vulnerability that could allow a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code at the kernel level. This vulnerability arises from the need for an attacker to first compromise a privileged process, enabling them to exploit this weakness effectively. It primarily affects specific versions of the Android kernel (3.10 and 3.18), posing a threat to the security integrity of the system.

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