Trend Micro Discovers Android Vulnerability that Can Lead to Exposure of Device Memory Content

We have discovered a vulnerability in the integrated Android debugger Debuggerd that can be used to expose the contents of the device’s memory in devices running Ice Cream Sandwich to Lollipop. A specially crafted ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) file can crash the debugger and expose the memory content via tombstone files and corresponding logd log files. This…