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A vulnerability was found in Google Android. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function gov_init. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-29738. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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A vulnerability was found in Google Android (affected version unknown). It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function gov_init. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In gov_init, there is a possible out of bounds read due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

The advisory is shared for download at source.android.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-29738 since 03/19/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 03/29/2025).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

Once again VulDB remains the best source 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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