| Title: |
Vulnerability in Blacklist for Android |
| Time: |
06 Dec 2011 |
| Author: |
Daoyuan Wu*, Xiapu Luo* and Rocky K. C. Chang |
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Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
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* authors with equal contributions |
| CVE ID: |
CVE-2011-4705 |
| Category: |
Newly Released
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| Related Vendor: |
Ming Software |
| Archive Time: |
December 6, 2011 HKT |
| Package Name: |
vc.software.blacklist |
| Full Name: |
Blacklist Free |
| Affected Version: |
1.8.1 and 1.9.2.1 (the latest version in 06 Dec 2011) |
| Package Installs: |
100,000 - 500,000 |
| Market Link: |
https://market.android.com/details?id=vc.software.blacklist |
| Status: |
Breif impact description now releases to public.
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| Breif Description: |
Allow a malicious application to execute a data-flow attack and access user’s blacklists and contacts. |
| Contact Time: |
Dec 16, 2011 at 3:19 PM HKT
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| Confirm Time: |
Dec 16, 2011 at 5:52 PM HKT |
| Patched Time: |
They didn't notied us about detailed patch time and version. |
| Patched Status: |
We've checked version 1.9.2.3, uploaded in Jan 3 2012, which has patched the vulnerability. |
Although we only mention one or several affected version in our report, other versions may also be vulnerable, e.g. lower version, pad version or paid version.