Android OS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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

CVE-2011-1823

The vold volume manager daemon on Android 3.0 and 2.x before 2.3.4 trusts messages that are received from a PFNETLINK socket, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code and gain root privileges via a negative index that bypasses a maximum-only signed integer check in the...

CVE-2011-1823

The CVE-2011-1823 entry concerns the vold volume manager daemon in Android (Android 3.0 and 2.x up to 2.3.4). The vulnerability arises from trusting PF_NETLINK messages, enabling a local attacker to execute arbitrary code and gain root privileges via a negative index that bypasses a maximum-only ...