Android < 2.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5737

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.

Description

Versions of Google Android operating system prior to 2.3 are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

- A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Zygote/Dalvik virtual machine framework.

- A denial-of-service issue exists that can cause 'dexdump' to crash (CVE-2011-1001).

Solution

Upgrade to Google Android operating system version 2.3 or later.

See Also

http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2010/12/zygote-trickery-743c-27c3-release.html

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a=commit;h=4b0750e8df91220690bb417f45d7ae8b7851b220

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 5737

Published: 1/3/2011

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:U/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:google:android_sdk

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/30/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1001

BID: 45650, 48654