CVE-2011-3918

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.

References

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS