Memory-mapped File Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVE-2016-3757 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

The print_maps function in toolbox/lsof.c in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-07-01 allows user-assisted attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that attempts to list a long name of a memory-mapped file, aka internal bug 28175237. NOTE: print_maps is not related to the Vic Abell lsof product.

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