National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3918

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: MISC

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

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