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CVE-2011-1823: Android OS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

highCVSS 3.1 7.8Exploited

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 DirectVolume::handlePartitionAdded method, which triggers memory corruption, as demonstrated by Gingerbreak.

Published Jun 9, 2011 · Updated Jun 16, 2026

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The vold volume manager daemon on Android 3.0 and 2.x before 2.3.4 trusts messages that are received from a PF_NETLINK 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 DirectVolume::handlePartitionAdded method, which triggers memory corruption, as demonstrated by Gingerbreak.

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