Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-11276 - Double Free vulnerability in Google Android
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, double free of memory allocation is possible in Kernel when it explicitly tries to free that memory on driver probe failure, since memory allocated is automatically freed on probe.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-09-01#qualcomm-components
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-09-01#qualcomm-components
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=83a44ca6057bf9c1e36515cded28edc32a4a1501
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=83a44ca6057bf9c1e36515cded28edc32a4a1501
- https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
- https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin