CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1149
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-04-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Android before 2.3 does not properly restrict access to the system property space, which allows local applications to bypass the application sandbox and gain privileges, as demonstrated by psneuter and KillingInTheNameOf, related to the use of Android shared memory (ashmem) and ASHMEM_SET_PROT_MASK.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 2.2.2)
• google android 1.5
• google android 1.6
• google android 2.1
• google android 2.2
• google android 2.2.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c98a285075f26e2b17a5baa2cb3eb6356a75597e android.git.kernel.org
- http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/system/core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25b15be9120bcdaa0aba622c67ad2c835d9e91ca android.git.kernel.org
- http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2011/01/adb-trickery-again.html c-skills.blogspot.com
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2 Exploit
- http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss/browse_thread/thread/15f97658c88d6827/e86db04652651971?show_docid=e86db04652651971 groups.google.com
- https://github.com/tmzt/g2root-kmod/tree/scotty2/scotty2 Patch
- http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c98a285075f26e2b17a5baa2cb3eb6356a75597e android.git.kernel.org
- http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/system/core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25b15be9120bcdaa0aba622c67ad2c835d9e91ca android.git.kernel.org
- http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2011/01/adb-trickery-again.html c-skills.blogspot.com
- http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2 Exploit
- http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss/browse_thread/thread/15f97658c88d6827/e86db04652651971?show_docid=e86db04652651971 groups.google.com
- https://github.com/tmzt/g2root-kmod/tree/scotty2/scotty2 Patch