The vold volume manager daemon on Android 3.0 and 2.x before 2.3.4 trusts messages that are received from a PF_NETLINK socket, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code and gain root privileges via a negative index that bypasses a maximum-only signed integer check in the DirectVolume::handlePartitionAdded method, which triggers memory corruption, as demonstrated by Gingerbreak.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-06-09T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:37:25.911Z

Reserved: 2011-04-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-1823

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2011-06-09T10:36:27.680

Modified: 2024-12-20T03:55:54.073

Link: CVE-2011-1823

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