CVE-2014-7953

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 7, 2017
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Oct 7, 2014

Description

Race condition in the bindBackupAgent method in the ActivityManagerService in Android 4.4.4 allows local users with adb shell access to execute arbitrary code or any valid package as system by running "pm install" with the target apk, and simultaneously running a crafted script to process logcat's output looking for a dexopt line, which once found should execute bindBackupAgent with the uid member of the ApplicationInfo parameter set to 1000.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/a8f6d1b%5E%21/
20150417 CVE-2014-7953 Android backup agent code executionmailing-list
20150417 CVE-2014-7953 Android backup agent code executionmailing-list
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