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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2016-10239

High
7.8/10

Summary

In TrustZone access control policy may potentially be bypassed in all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel due to improper input validation an integer overflow vulnerability leading to a buffer overflow could potentially occur and a buffer over-read vulnerability could potentially occur.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published