CVE-2017-0337: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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-31992762. References: N-CVE-2017-0337.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 3.18 only

Published 2017-03-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.