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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2011-06-09T10:00:00
Updated: 2017-08-16T14:57:01
Reserved: 2011-04-20T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2011-1823
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2011-06-09T10:36:27.680
Modified: 2023-11-07T02:07:14.530
Link: CVE-2011-1823
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