PT-2012-5263 · Google · Android

Giantpune · Published 2012-11-30 · Updated 2013-10-11 · CVE-2012-4221

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions 2.3 through 4.2

Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the diagchar core.c file of the Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Diagnostics kernel-mode driver. This allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via an application that uses crafted arguments in a local diagchar ioctl call.

Recommendations For Android versions 2.3 through 4.2, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4221

Affected Products

Android

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4221 · Security Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/702452 · Note
• https://codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/multiple-issues-diagkgsl-system-call-handling-cve-2012-4220-cve-2012 · Note