The interaction between the kernel /dev/binder and the usermode Parcel.cpp mean that when a binder object is passed as BINDER_TYPE_BINDER or BINDER_TYPE_WEAK_BINDER, a pointer to that object (in the server process) is leaked to the client process as the cookie value. This leads to a leak of a heap address in many of the privileged binder services, including system_server. Continue reading...
