[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <CAOSRhROHk-cYEuNJ--UCN7vC3M9nCu1+egiQ4xETApW_XBkf5w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:08:35 -0500
From: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: Android: vold stack buffer overflow
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com> wrote:
> A local user with group "log" on Android may send a malformed message
> to vold ("volume daemon"), causing a stack buffer overflow. This has
> been demonstrated to be exploitable to escalate privileges to root on
> all Froyo (2.2.x) and Gingerbread (2.4.x) devices via freeing an
> arbitrary heap object and triggering a use-after-free condition [1].
> It appears the bug was silently patched in Honeycomb (3.x), but note
> that since Honeycomb is not open source, it does not fall within the
> scope of this list. Bug discovered and exploited by the Revolutionary
> team [2].
>
Oops, a few minor corrections.
Typo: Gingerbread is 2.3.x. Also, the vulnerability actually lives in
the libsysutils library, and was demonstrated to be exploitable via
vold, which makes use of the affected library function. Sorry for the
noise.
> -Dan
>
> [1] https://github.com/revolutionary/zergRush/blob/master/zergRush.c
> [2] http://revolutionary.io/
>
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Please check out the
Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this
mailing list.
Confused about mailing lists and their use?
Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia
and check out these
guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.
