PT-2012-1746 · Google · Android

Published 2012-10-07 · Updated 2013-08-03 · CVE-2011-3918

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 4.0.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a reboot loop, by sending crafted fork requests to the Zygote process from processes with arbitrary UIDs.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 4.0.4, update to a version 4.0.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-3918

Affected Products

Android

References · 4

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/28957 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://ai-lab.it/merlo/publications/DoSAndroid.pdf · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3918 · Security Note
• https://code.google.com/p/android-source-browsing/source/detail?repo=platform--system--core&r=e7fd911fd42b · Note