Google Android Vold Volume Manager Integer Wrap Root Exploit Privilege Escalation - Ver2 (CVE-2011-1823)

A privilege escalation vulnerability has been reported in Google Android Operating System. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to the affected system...

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...