---
id: 8726
title: "BitUnmap: Attacking Android Ashmem"
source_domain: projectzero.google
source_url: "https://projectzero.google/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html"
published_at: "2016-12-01T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["android", "exploitation", "memory-corruption", "kernel", "project-zero", "ashmem", "shared-memory"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8726"
lang: en
---

# BitUnmap: Attacking Android Ashmem

## Summary

A Project Zero post on attacking Android's ashmem shared memory interface, showing how wrong assumptions about its internals led to bugs in core system code.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** projectzero.google
- **Published:** 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://projectzero.google/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8726