CVE detail
CVE-2011-1823
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.
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Buzz score components · mention 6.9 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 25.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Researchers have publicised probably the most dangerous Android malware examples yet discovered, a Trojan that exploits the GingerBreak root hack (CVE-2011-1823) in Android 2.3 that gained wide publicity after its discovery in April. According to a team at North Carolina State University, which analysed the malware in conjunction with Chinese mobile security firm NetQin, ‘GingerMaster’ […]
newswww.csoonline.comAug 24, 2011, 3:00 PM
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