CVE-2011-3918

EPSS 1.4%

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/28957unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

Want to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?

Talk to TrueHacking →

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