CVE-2017-0505: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in MediaTek components, including the M4U driver, sound driver, touchscreen driver, GPU driver, and Command Queue 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: N/A. Android ID: A-31822282. References: M-ALPS02992041.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.1.1

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