A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (unknown version). This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Linux Kernel. The manipulation as part of a Command leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, while processing a specially crafted cfg80211 vendor command, a buffer over-read can occur.

The bug was discovered 11/06/2017. The weakness was released 11/16/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at source.android.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-11058 since 07/07/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/07/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 10 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 104449, 109492, 109498 and 109499.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Google

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• Android

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