A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Google Android on One (Smartphone Operating System). This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component MediaTek Display Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The MediaTek display driver in Android before 2016-07-05 on Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28402341 and MediaTek internal bug ALPS02715341.

The weakness was published 07/06/2016 as Android Security Bulletin - July 2016 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is shared at source.android.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-3806 since 03/30/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/22/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 2016-07-05 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at 88897, 88898, 88899 and 88900.

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