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A vulnerability was found in Google Android 4.1.1. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Browser. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. Furthermore, an exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Google Android 4.1.1 (Smartphone Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Browser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality.

The weakness was published 03/14/2013 by Jann Horn as not defined mailinglist post (Full-Disclosure). The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. The public release happened without coordination with the vendor. Technical details are unknown but a private exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 4.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch Android Issue #1086869776 is able to eliminate this problem. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at OSVDB (91277†). Similar entries are available at VDB-7999, VDB-8008, VDB-8001 and VDB-8002. 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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• 4.1.1

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• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.google.com/

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