Google Android privilege escalation | CVE-2021-1050
NAME
Google Android privilege escalation
- Platforms Affected:
- Risk Level:
8.4 - Exploitability:
Unproven - Consequences:
Gain Privilege
DESCRIPTION
Google Android could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write due to a missing bounds check in MMU_UnmapPages of the PowerVR kernel driver. By executing a specially-crafted program, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges.
CVSS 3.0 Information
- Privileges Required: None
- User Interaction: None
- Scope: Unchanged
- Access Vector: Local
- Access Complexity: Low
- Confidentiality Impact: High
- Integrity Impact: High
- Availability Impact: High
- Remediation Level: Official Fix
MITIGATION
Upgrade to the latest version of Android (released on November 7, 2022), available from the Google Web site. See References.
- Reference Link:
http://code.google.com/android/ - Reference Link:
https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2022-11-01#Android-and-Google-service-mitigations
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