Google Android WLAN Message memory corruption

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Google Android. Affected is an unknown function of the component WLAN. The manipulation as part of Message leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2017-8241. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (the affected version is unknown). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component WLAN. The manipulation as part of a Message leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in a WLAN function due to an incorrect message length.

The bug was discovered 06/05/2017. The weakness was published 06/13/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at source.android.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-8241 since 04/25/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. 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 $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/27/2020). 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 8 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

Similar entries are available at VDB-102302, VDB-102303, VDB-102304 and VDB-102305. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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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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• Vendor: https://www.google.com/

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