PT-2020-7804 · Google · Android

Glenn Kasten · Published 2020-01-24 · Updated 2020-01-28 · CVE-2015-1525

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Android versions prior to 5.1

Description: The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an audio policy application outage, by providing a crafted application with a NULL device address. This is related to the audio/AudioPolicyManagerBase.cpp file in Android.

Recommendations: For Android versions prior to 5.1, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the audio policy manager to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-1525

Affected Products

Android

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1525 · Security Note
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/libhardware_legacy/+/2d2ea50%5E%21 · Note