Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2016-8426. PoCs published by codecat007.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This PoC exploits a race condition in the NVIDIA GPU driver (nvhost-gpu) by rapidly opening and closing file descriptors via ioctl calls, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. The code demonstrates the vulnerability by creating multiple threads to close the file descriptor while the main thread continues to open new ones.
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10. Android ID: A-31799206. References: N-CVE-2016-8426.
Exploits (1)
This PoC exploits a race condition in the NVIDIA GPU driver (nvhost-gpu) by rapidly opening and closing file descriptors via ioctl calls, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. The code demonstrates the vulnerability by creating multiple threads to close the file descriptor while the main thread continues to open new ones.
References (3)
Scores
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H