PT-2018-1961 · Google · Android

Published 2018-06-08 · Updated 2019-11-13 · CVE-2018-9550

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions 9

Description The issue is related to the CAacDecoder Init function in the aacdecoder.cpp file of the Android operating system, which is associated with an out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote code execution with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is required for exploitation.

Recommendations For Android version 9, update to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Buffer Overflow

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

BDU:2018-01568

CVE-2018-9550

Affected Products

Android

References · 5

• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-12-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-01568 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-9550 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9550 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/106137 · Note