A vulnerability was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (unknown version) and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Qualcomm Component. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote code execution vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In Android before 2018-01-05 on Qualcomm Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile MDM9206, MDM9607, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, PKCS7 padding is not supported by the crypto storage APIs.

The bug was discovered 01/29/2018. The weakness was disclosed 01/02/2018 as Android Security Bulletin - January 2018 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is shared for download at source.android.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-14906 since 09/28/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 12/20/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published 3 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The entries 111420, 111421, 111439 and 111438 are pretty similar.

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• Google

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• Android

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