Google Android Linux Kernel memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Google Android. It has been classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Linux Kernel. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2017-14899. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. 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) (unknown version). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Linux Kernel. The manipulation with an unknown input 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 Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, while processing the QCA_NL80211_VENDOR_SUBCMD_SET_TXPOWER_SCALE_DECR_DB vendor command, in which attribute QCA_WLAN_VENDOR_ATTR_TXPOWER_SCALE_DECR_DB contains fewer than 1 byte, a buffer overrun occurs.

The bug was discovered 12/05/2017. The weakness was presented 12/05/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at source.android.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-14899 since 09/28/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. 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 12/21/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

See VDB-101212, VDB-102646, VDB-110201 and VDB-110202 for similar entries. 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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