CVE-2017-6289 Memory corruption in Android

What is CVE-2017-6289?

CVE-2017-6289 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Android, published on 10 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Android before the 2018-05-05 security patch level, NVIDIA Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) contains a memory corruption (due to unusual root cause) vulnerability, which if run within the speculative execution of the TEE, may lead to local escalation of privileges. This issue is rated as critical. Android: A-72830049. Reference: N-CVE-2017-6289.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6289?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2017-6289?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6289 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2017-6289 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6289 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-h925-mm85-mc8q.