With the advent of a potential Dolby Unified Decoder RCE exploit, it seemed prudent to see what kind of Linux kernel drivers might be accessible from the resulting userland context, the mediacodec context. As per the AOSP documentation, the mediacodec SELinux context is intended to be a constrained (a.k.a sandboxed) context where non-secure software decoders are utilized. Nevertheless, using my DriverCartographer tool, I discovered an interesting device driver, /dev/bigwave that was accessible from the mediacodec SELinux context. BigWave is hardware present on the Pixel SOC that accelerates AV1 decoding tasks, which explains why it is accessible from the mediacodec context. As previous research has copiously affirmed, Android drivers for hardware devices are prime places to find powerful local privilege escalation bugs. The BigWave driver was no exception - across a couple hours of auditing the code, I discovered three separate bugs, including one that was powerful enough to escape the mediacodec sandbox and get kernel arbitrary read/write on the Pixel 9.
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