CVE-2011-3918

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

The Zygote process in Android 4.0.3 and earlier accepts fork requests from processes with arbitrary UIDs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot loop) via a crafted application.

The Zygote process in Android 4.0.3 and earlier accepts fork requests from processes with arbitrary UIDs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot loop) via a crafted application.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-10-07 15:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-08-03 07:37:00

Affected Software

Google Android Operating System 1.0

1.0

Google Android Operating System 1.1

1.1

Google Android Operating System 1.5

1.5

Google Android Operating System 1.6

1.6

Google Android Operating System 2.0

2.0

Google Android Operating System 2.0.1

2.0.1

Google Android Operating System 2.1

2.1

Google Android Operating System 2.2

2.2

Google Android Operating System 2.2 Revision 1

2.2

Google Android Operating System 2.2.1

2.2.1

Google Android Operating System 2.2.2

2.2.2

Google Android Operating System 2.2.3

2.2.3

Google Android Operating System 2.3

2.3

Google Android Operating System 2.3 Revision 1

2.3

Google Android Operating System 2.3.1

2.3.1

Google Android Operating System 2.3.2

2.3.2

Google Android Operating System 2.3.3

2.3.3

Google Android Operating System 2.3.4

2.3.4

Google Android Operating System 2.3.5

2.3.5

Google Android Operating System 2.3.6

2.3.6

Google Android Operating System 2.3.7

2.3.7

Google Android Operating System 3.0

3.0

Google Android Operating System 3.1

3.1

Google Android Operating System 3.2

3.2

Google Android Operating System 3.2.1

3.2.1

Google Android Operating System 3.2.2

3.2.2

Google Android Operating System 3.2.4

3.2.4

Google Android Operating System 3.2.6

3.2.6

Google Android Operating System 4.0

4.0

Google Android Operating System 4.0.1

4.0.1

Google Android Operating System 4.0.2

4.0.2

Google Android Operating System

References

http://www.ai-lab.it/merlo/publications/DoSAndroid.pdf

Exploit

https://code.google.com/p/android-source-browsing/source/detail?repo=platform--system--core&r=e7fd911fd42b

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