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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2011-06-09T10:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-02-07T14:17:39.679Z
Reserved: 2011-04-20T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2011-1823

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

Status : Analyzed
Published: 2011-06-09T10:36:27.680
Modified: 2025-03-14T19:06:36.830
Link: CVE-2011-1823

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