CWE Code: 189
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Numeric Errors
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2011-06-09
Last Modified Date: 2017-08-17