First published: Mon Feb 06 2017(Updated: )
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Audioserver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1. Android ID: A-32705438.
Credit: security@android.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Google Android | =4.0 | |
Google Android | =4.0.1 | |
Google Android | =4.0.2 | |
Google Android | =4.0.3 | |
Google Android | =4.0.4 | |
Google Android | =4.1 | |
Google Android | =4.1.2 | |
Google Android | =4.2 | |
Google Android | =4.2.1 | |
Google Android | =4.2.2 | |
Google Android | =4.3 | |
Google Android | =4.3.1 | |
Google Android | =4.4 | |
Google Android | =4.4.1 | |
Google Android | =4.4.2 | |
Google Android | =4.4.3 | |
Google Android | =4.4.4 | |
Google Android | =5.0 | |
Google Android | =5.0.1 | |
Google Android | =5.0.2 | |
Google Android | =5.1 | |
Google Android | =5.1.0 | |
Google Android | =5.1.1 | |
Google Android | =6.0 | |
Google Android | =6.0.1 | |
Google Android | =7.0 | |
Google Android | =7.1.0 | |
Google Android | =7.1.1 | |
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CVE-2017-0417 is rated as High due to its potential to enable local applications to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context.
To address CVE-2017-0417, update your Android device to the latest security patch provided by Google.
CVE-2017-0417 affects multiple Android versions from 4.0 up to 7.1.1.
CVE-2017-0417 is classified as an elevation of privilege vulnerability.
No, CVE-2017-0417 requires local access to exploit the vulnerability.