A vulnerability was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (unknown version). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component DCI Client Entry Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, improper input validation can lead to an improper access to already freed up dci client entries while closing dci client.

The bug was discovered 08/06/2018. The weakness was published 11/27/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at source.codeaurora.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-11266 since 05/18/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. 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 $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/11/2023). 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 113 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

Similar entries are available at VDB-127164, VDB-127163, VDB-127162 and VDB-127159.

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• Android

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