CVE-2016-8446

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in MediaTek components, including the thermal driver and video 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: N/A. Android ID: A-31747749. References: MT-ALPS02968909.

Date published : 2017-01-12

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95229

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html