A vulnerability was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (affected version not known). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component WLAN. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, lack of check of input received from userspace before copying into buffer can lead to potential array overflow in WLAN.

The bug was discovered 09/04/2018. The weakness was shared 09/18/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at source.codeaurora.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-11302 since 05/18/2018. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/16/2023). 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 14 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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• Google

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• Android

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