A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Google bionic (the affected version is unknown). This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the component malloc. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a numeric error vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-189. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) chk_malloc, (2) leak_malloc, and (3) leak_memalign functions in libc/bionic/malloc_debug_leak.c in Bionic (libc) for Android, when libc.debug.malloc is set, make it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large size value, which causes less memory to be allocated than expected.

The weakness was presented 07/25/2012 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2012-2674 since 05/14/2012. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful 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 12/07/2021).

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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• free

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