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GHSA-3HJ2-5CWP-2349

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 01:59 – Updated: 2025-10-22 03:30

Details

The vold volume manager daemon on Android 3.0 and 2.x before 2.3.4 trusts messages that are received from a PF_NETLINK socket, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code and gain root privileges via a negative index that bypasses a maximum-only signed integer check in the DirectVolume::handlePartitionAdded method, which triggers memory corruption, as demonstrated by Gingerbreak.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2011-1823 (GCVE-0-2011-1823)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-06-09 10:00 – Updated: 2025-10-22 00:05

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-07 14:17 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2354 records in the last 180 days details

References

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Date Public

2011-04-21 00:00

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