CVE-2017-0449: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom Wi-Fi driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process and is mitigated by current platform configurations. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10. Android ID: A-31707909. References: B-RB#32094.

Affected products

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

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