A vulnerability was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (version now known). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Mediaserver. The manipulation as part of a Request leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A crafted binder request can cause an arbitrary unmap in MediaServer in all Android releases from CAF (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.

The bug was discovered 05/11/2018. The weakness was released 06/06/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at source.android.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-18154 since 02/05/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/15/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 26 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 117573, 117574, 119016 and 119017.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Google

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• Android

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