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A vulnerability was found in Google Android. It has been classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component WMI Packet Handler. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2018-5855. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (unknown version). This affects an unknown code block of the component WMI Packet Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

While padding or shrinking a nested wmi packet in all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-07-05, a buffer over-read can potentially occur.

The bug was discovered 07/05/2018. The weakness was released 07/06/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at source.android.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-5855 since 01/19/2018. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/05/2023). 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 1 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 VDB-120537, VDB-120538 and VDB-126500. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Google

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• Android

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• free

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• Vendor: https://www.google.com/

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