A vulnerability was found in Google Android up to 9.0 (Smartphone Operating System). It has been classified as critical. Affected is some unknown processing of the component System. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The bug was discovered 01/07/2019. The weakness was released 01/07/2019 as Android Security Bulletin - January 2019 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is shared for download at source.android.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-9586 since 04/05/2018. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-130412, VDB-130413, VDB-130414 and VDB-130415.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Google

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• Android

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• 7.0
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.2
• 8.0
• 8.1
• 9.0

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• free

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