Privilege escalation via DMA transfer use-after-free
Published Jun 16, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024
Use-after-free in the Android kernel allows attackers to elevate privileges by racing PCIe DMA transfer cleanup against active use. The abc_pcie_issue_dma_xfer_sync function publishes a transfer object in a session before abc_pcie_start_dma_xfer and abc_pcie_wait_dma_xfer finish using it, while abc_pcie_dma_user_xfer_clean can concurrently delete that object. Exploitation requires concurrent access to the same DMA session and can yield elevated privileges through kernel memory reuse.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in the Android kernel allows attackers to elevate privileges by racing PCIe DMA transfer cleanup against active use. The abc_pcie_issue_dma_xfer_sync function publishes a transfer object in a session before abc_pcie_start_dma_xfer and abc_pcie_wait_dma_xfer finish using it, while abc_pcie_dma_user_xfer_clean can concurrently delete that object. Exploitation requires concurrent access to the same DMA session and can yield elevated privileges through kernel memory reuse.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2020-0232
- Published
- Jun 16, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Vendor
- Google Cloud
- Product
- Android
- Classifications
- CWE-416, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jun 16, 2020CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 4, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=Android kernel
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