Amazon Kindle Fire HD 4.5.5.3 on Fire OS Kernel gcif.c Argument argument injection

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Amazon Kindle Fire HD 4.5.5.3 on Fire OS. This impacts an unknown function of the file kernel/omap/drivers/misc/gcx/gcioctl/gcif.c of the component Kernel. Such manipulation as part of Argument leads to argument injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2018-11024. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Amazon Kindle Fire HD 4.5.5.3 on Fire OS (Tablet Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file kernel/omap/drivers/misc/gcx/gcioctl/gcif.c of the component Kernel. The manipulation as part of a Argument leads to a argument injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-88. The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

kernel/omap/drivers/misc/gcx/gcioctl/gcif.c in the kernel component in Amazon Kindle Fire HD (3rd) Fire OS 4.5.5.3 allows attackers to inject a crafted argument via the argument of an ioctl on device /dev/gcioctl with the command 1077435789 and cause a kernel crash.

The bug was discovered 10/10/2018. The weakness was shared 10/16/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-11024 since 05/13/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 6 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entry VDB-125353 is related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Tablet Operating System

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• Amazon

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• Kindle Fire HD

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• 4.5.5.3

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• commercial

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