Amazon Kindle Fire HD 4.5.5.3 on Fire OS Kernel device.c Argument argument injection
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A vulnerability was found in Amazon Kindle Fire HD 4.5.5.3 on Fire OS (Tablet Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the file kernel/omap/drivers/video/omap2/dsscomp/device.c of the component Kernel. The manipulation as part of a Argument leads to a argument injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-88. The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component
in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the
intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:
kernel/omap/drivers/video/omap2/dsscomp/device.c in the kernel component in Amazon Kindle Fire HD(3rd) Fire OS 4.5.5.3 allows attackers to inject a crafted argument via the argument of an ioctl on device /dev/dsscomp with the command 1118064517 and cause a kernel crash.
The bug was discovered 10/10/2018. The weakness was released 10/16/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-11021 since 05/13/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 6 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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CPE 2.3
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CVSSv4
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4
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Exploiting
Class: Argument injectionCWE: CWE-88 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Remote: Yes
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Timeline
05/13/2018 🔍10/10/2018 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: github.comStatus: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2018-11021 (🔍)
Entry
Created: 10/17/2018 06:46Updated: 04/02/2020 16:05
Changes: 10/17/2018 06:46 (61), 04/02/2020 16:05 (1)
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