CVE-2016-8446: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.1.0

Published 2017-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.