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Android Mitigation Bypass

Android Mitigation Bypass
Posted Dec 2, 2016
Authored by Google Security Research, laginimaineb

Because of a design bug in IOMX, the user-supplied sizes in the GET_PARAMETER and SET_PARAMETER calls ar e discarded before calling in to the responsible OMX code-paths. This has led to a variety of overflow-type bugs.

tags | advisory, overflow
advisories | CVE-2016-6717
SHA-256 | 245303f62a985e2c7f94eea5fb4db0d07c7e4c06a7618c0e4bce59602d707a4c

Android Mitigation Bypass

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 Android: mitigation bypass - the guard page creation in IOMX can fail 

CVE-2016-6717


Because of a design bug in IOMX, the user-supplied sizes in the GET_PARAMETER and SET_PARAMETER calls are discarded before calling in to the responsible OMX code-paths (see OMXNodeInstance.{get,set}Parameter).

This has led to a variety of overflow-type bugs, including <a href="https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=200821" title="" class="" rel="nofollow">https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=200821</a>.

In order to mitigate these overflows, the buffers allocated for the user are extended by a single page, and that page is made inaccessible by calling:

mprotect((char*)params + allocSize - pageSize, pageSize, PROT_NONE);

(see <a href="http://androidxref.com/7.0.0_r1/xref/frameworks/av/media/libmedia/IOMX.cpp#778" title="" class="" rel="nofollow">http://androidxref.com/7.0.0_r1/xref/frameworks/av/media/libmedia/IOMX.cpp#778</a>)

However, the return value of mprotect here is not checked and the mprotect request may fail in extreme cases (for example, if the kernel is running low on memory).

If an attacker manages to cause this condition to occur, the trailing page will remain RW, which could re-introduce the old GET_PARAMETER/SET_PARAMETER bugs (allowing the attacker to overflow into potentially sensitive data).

This bug is subject to a 90 day disclosure deadline. If 90 days elapse
without a broadly available patch, then the bug report will automatically
become visible to the public.




Found by: laginimaineb

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