Google Android Host Driver Variable memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Google Android and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component Host Driver. The manipulation as part of Variable results in memory corruption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2017-14888. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (the affected version is unknown). It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown code of the component Host Driver. The manipulation as part of a Variable leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, Userspace can pass IEs to the host driver and if multiple append commands are received, then the integer variable that stores the length can overflow and the subsequent copy of the IE data may potentially lead to a heap buffer overflow.

The bug was discovered 11/05/2018. The weakness was presented 12/07/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at source.android.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-14888 since 09/28/2017. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/19/2020). 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 32 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

See VDB-127699 for similar entry. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit 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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