PT-2018-8522 · Google · Android

Chenfu Bao + 2 · Published 2018-03-30 · Updated 2018-04-20 · CVE-2017-9681

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 2017-08-05

Description The issue allows information disclosure for the kernel. A user could set an arbitrary kernel address, potentially leading to information disclosure. This occurs when a kernel memory address is passed from userspace through the iris vidioc s ext ctrls ioctl.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 2017-08-05, update to a version released after 2017-08-05 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9681

Affected Products

Android

References · 3

• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-08-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9681 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/100210 · Note