CVE-2018-5850 - Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

In the function csr_update_fils_params_rso(), insufficient validation on a key length can result in an integer underflow leading to a buffer overflow in all Android releases from CAF (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.

In the function csr_update_fils_params_rso(), insufficient validation on a key length can result in an integer underflow leading to a buffer overflow in all Android releases from CAF (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.

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:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Demo Examples

Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

CWE-191

The following example subtracts from a 32 bit signed integer.


               
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return 0;

The example has an integer underflow. The value of i is already at the lowest negative value possible, so after subtracting 1, the new value of i is 2147483647.

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-06-06 21:29:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-07-17 16:49:00

Affected Software

Google Android Operating System

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