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CVE-2011-3918

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
07/10/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.0.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:2.2:rev1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:2.3:rev1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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