CVE-2017-0435: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm sound 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: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31906657. References: QC-CR#1078000.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.1.1
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 3.10 only; version 3.18 only

Published 2017-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.