CVE-2013-5933 Stack-based buffer overflow in the sub_E110 function in init in a certain configuration of Android 2.3.7 on the Motorola Defy XT phone for R

What is CVE-2013-5933?

CVE-2013-5933 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 25 Sep 2013.

Official description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the sub_E110 function in init in a certain configuration of Android 2.3.7 on the Motorola Defy XT phone for Republic Wireless allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by writing a long string to the /dev/socket/init_runit socket that is inconsistent with a certain length value that was previously written to this socket.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-5933?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Android, Motorola Defy Xt.

How do I fix CVE-2013-5933?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-5933 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-5933 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5933 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hm7j-97xp-p534.