CVE-2016-8432

HIGH

Android Kernel 3.18 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2016-8432. PoCs published by codecat007.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This PoC exploits a race condition in the NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver (CVE-2016-8432) by rapidly creating and closing GEM objects while submitting command buffers, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. The exploit uses multi-threading to trigger the race condition and achieve local privilege escalation.

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-3.18. Android ID: A-32447738. References: N-CVE-2016-8432.

Exploits (1)

github WORKING POC 8 stars
by codecat007 · cpoc
https://github.com/codecat007/cvehub/tree/main/android/securityPatch/CVE-2016-8432

This PoC exploits a race condition in the NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver (CVE-2016-8432) by rapidly creating and closing GEM objects while submitting command buffers, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. The exploit uses multi-threading to trigger the race condition and achieve local privilege escalation.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Lpe
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Racy
Target: NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver (Linux kernel)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Access to the target device · DRM render node (/dev/dri/renderD129) access
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 27, 2026 Full analysis →

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95236

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 45.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (2)
Google Inc./Android Kernel-3.18
linux/linux_kernel 3.18
Published Jan 12, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026