Use-after-free in Google Android - CVE-2018-5846
Published: June 6, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU37081
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5846
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Android
Google Android
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
A Use After Free condition can occur in the IPA driver whenever the IPA IOCTLs IPA_IOC_NOTIFY_WAN_UPSTREAM_ROUTE_ADD/IPA_IOC_NOTIFY_WAN_UPSTREAM_ROUTE_DEL/IPA_IOC_NOTIFY_WAN_EMBMS_CONNECTED are called in all Android releases from CAF (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-5846
Install update from vendor's website.