CVE-2018-11987 - Double Free

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, if there is an unlikely memory alloc failure for the secure pool in boot, it can result in wrong pointer access causing kernel panic.

In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, if there is an unlikely memory alloc failure for the secure pool in boot, it can result in wrong pointer access causing kernel panic.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Demo Examples

Double Free

CWE-415

Double Free

CWE-415

While contrived, this code should be exploitable on Linux distributions which do not ship with heap-chunk check summing turned on.


               
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Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-12-20 15:29:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2019-01-09 16:46:00

Affected Software

Google Android Operating System

References

https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/12/03/december-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

Patch, Third Party Advisory

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