Local privilege escalation via disp race condition
Published Jan 3, 2023 · Updated Apr 10, 2025
Use-after-free in MediaTek disp on Android 11.0 and 12.0 allows local users with System privileges to escalate privileges. A race condition in disp produces an object-lifetime violation and subsequent use-after-free; MediaTek has not identified the object or racing operations. Exploitation requires local access and System execution privileges and needs no user interaction; the resulting privilege level is undisclosed.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in MediaTek disp on Android 11.0 and 12.0 allows local users with System privileges to escalate privileges. A race condition in disp produces an object-lifetime violation and subsequent use-after-free; MediaTek has not identified the object or racing operations. Exploitation requires local access and System execution privileges and needs no user interaction; the resulting privilege level is undisclosed.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-32648
- Published
- Jan 3, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 10, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-662, T1404
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Jan 3, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 10, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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