CVE-2011-1823

HighCVSS 7.8/10Known exploited (CISA KEV)Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Jun 9, 2011
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
Added to CISA KEV
Sep 8, 2022
NVD status
Analyzed

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CVE-2011-1823: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix