CVE-2017-0427

Name	CVE-2017-0427
Description	An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel file system 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-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31495866.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Notes

NOT-FOR-US: Unspecified Android filesystem, apparently not in mainline
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-02-01.html
Android bulletin lists all recent devices as affected.
No source patch available, so may relate to Apache-licensed sdcardfs.