Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in NVIDIA Tegra X1 for Android Devices

CVE-2017-6293

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in NVIDIA Tegra X1 within the Widevine TA component for Android devices prior to the May 2018 security patch. This issue arises from improper handling of input data, resulting in potential buffer overflows. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to write data beyond the allocated buffer boundaries, leading to unauthorized escalation of privileges on affected systems.

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