security-advisory@quicinc.com
Stack-based buffer overflow and memory disclosure in camera driver (CVE-2013-4738 CVE-2013-4739)
Release Date:
October 15, 2013
Affected Projects:
Advisory ID:
QCIR-2013-00008-1
CVE ID(s):
Summary:
A stack-based buffer overflow and a kernel memory disclosure vulnerability have been discovered in the system call handlers of the camera driver. CVE-2013-4738: The camera post processing engine (CPP) and video processing engine (VPE) provide an ioctl system call interface to user space clients for communication. When processing arguments passed to the VIDIOC_MSM_CPP_DEQUEUE_STREAM_BUFF_INFO or VIDIOC_MSM_VPE_DEQUEUE_STREAM_BUFF_INFO ioctl subdev handlers, a user space supplied length value is used to copy memory to a local stack buffer without proper bounds checking. An application with access to the respective device nodes can use this flaw to, e.g., elevate privileges. Security Risk: high Vulnerability: CWE-121 (stack-based buffer overflow) --- CVE-2013-4739: The Gemini JPEG encoder and the Jpeg1.0 common encoder/decoder engines of the camera driver are not properly initializing all members of a structure before copying it to user space. This allows a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via ioctl system calls. Security Risk: low Vulnerability: CWE-200 (information exposure)
Access Vector:
Security Risk: Low
Access Vector:
Affected Versions:
All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel from the following heads: msm-3.4, jb_3*
Patch:
We advise customers to apply the following patches:
- CVE-2013-4738:
- CVE-2013-4739:
Acknowledgement:
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC) thanks Jonathan Salwan of the Sysdream Security Lab for reporting the related issues and working with QuIC to help improve Android device security.
Revisions:
Initial revision