Cybersecurity Alerts

Android OS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The vold volume manager daemon in Android kernel trusts messages from a PF_NETLINK socket, which allows an attacker to execute code and gain root privileges. This vulnerability is associated with GingerBreak and Exploit.AndroidOS.Lotoor.

Required Action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Weakness Classification

CWE-189

References

• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/vold/+/c51920c82463b240e2be0430849837d6fdc5352e
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1823