CVE-2020-0336 Memory corruption in Android

What is CVE-2020-0336?

CVE-2020-0336 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Android, published on 17 Sep 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In SurfaceFlinger, there is possible memory corruption due to type confusion. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-11Android ID: A-153467444

Weakness: CWE-843, CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-0336?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2020-0336?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-0336 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-2020-0336 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-0336 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-vfqm-4cxm-qpxr, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-0336.