CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3918
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 4.0.3)
• google android 1.0
• google android 1.1
• google android 1.5
• google android 1.6
• google android 2.0
• google android 2.0.1
• google android 2.1
• google android 2.2
• google android 2.2.1
• google android 2.2.2
• google android 2.2.3
• google android 2.3
• google android 2.3.1
• google android 2.3.2
• google android 2.3.3
• google android 2.3.4
• google android 2.3.5
• google android 2.3.6
• google android 2.3.7
• google android 3.0
• google android 3.1
• google android 3.2
• google android 3.2.1
• google android 3.2.2
• google android 3.2.4
• google android 3.2.6
• google android 4.0
• google android 4.0.1
• google android 4.0.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.ai-lab.it/merlo/publications/DoSAndroid.pdf www.ai-lab.it
- https://code.google.com/p/android-source-browsing/source/detail?repo=platform--system--core&r=e7fd911fd42b code.google.com
- http://www.ai-lab.it/merlo/publications/DoSAndroid.pdf www.ai-lab.it
- https://code.google.com/p/android-source-browsing/source/detail?repo=platform--system--core&r=e7fd911fd42b code.google.com