2. About Me & C0RE Team
¨C Hanxiang Wen, ÎÂå«Ïè (arnow117)
? Security researcher @ C0RE Team
? Focus on Android vulnerability research and exploit development
¨C C0RE Team
? A security-focused group started in mid-2015, with a recent focus on the
Android/Linux platform
? The team aims to discover zero-day vulnerabilities, develop proof-of-concept
and exploit
? 118 public CVEs for AOSP and Linux Kernel currently
? Android op researcher team for submitting high quality reports to
Google VRP.
3. Agenda
? Android Vulnerabilities Overview
? Common Vulnerabilities Type
? Some Examples
? AOSP
? Kernel
? How 2 Report
? More profit ?
6. ? Type Confusion (CVE-2017-0546)
? NPD (Null Pointer Dereference) (CVE-2016-6765)
Common Vulnerabilities Type
7. ? TOCTOU (Time Of Check Time Of Use) (CVE-2017-0419)
? Missing Permission Check (CVE-2017-0490)
Common Vulnerabilities Type
8. AOSP Vulnerabilities Overview
? Based on Vulnerabilities Position
? System services
? Frameworks libraries
? 3rd-party / Cross-platform libraries
? Vendor¡¯s libraries
? Based on Trigger Path
? Local Binder IPC with privileged process
? Parsing file in privileged/unprivileged process
10. Kernel Vulnerabilities Overview
? Based on vulnerabilities Position
? Subsystem (filesystem, network, memory)
? Drivers (Qualcomm, MediaTek, Nvidia)
? Based on Trigger Path
? Multiple file operations on a file descriptor which relates to a
device node.
24. More Profit ?
https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/android-rewards/
Severity Complete
Report* + PoC
Payment range (if report
includes an exploit leading to
Kernel compromise)**
Payment range (if report
includes an exploit leading to
TEE compromise)**
Critical Required Up to $150,000 Up to $200,000
High Required Up to $75,000 Up to $100,000
Moderate Required Up to $20,000 Up to $35,000
Low Required Up to $330 Up to $330
Severity Bug Report* + Proof of
concept + CTS + patch
Bug Report* + Proof of
concept + (CTS or patch)
Bug Report* + Proof of
concept
Critical $8,000 $7,000 $6,000
High $4,500 $3,500 $2,500
Moderate - - $1,000
Low - - $333
Patch and CTS tests submissions may qualify for a reward up to $1000 each