The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of the print Maps function toolbox/lsof.c in the Android operating system exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating locally, to increase their privileges by using a specially created file with a long...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3757

The printmaps function in toolbox/lsof.c in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-07-01 allows user-assisted attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that attempts to list a long name of a memory-mapped file, aka internal bug 28175237...