CVE-2011-1149

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-04-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Android before 2.3 does not properly restrict access to the system property space, which allows local applications to bypass the application sandbox and gain privileges, as demonstrated by psneuter and KillingInTheNameOf, related to the use of Android shared memory (ashmem) and ASHMEM_SET_PROT_MASK.

Affected products

Android: through 2.2.2; 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2-rev1, 2.2.1

References

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c98a285075f26e2b17a5baa2cb3eb6356a75597e
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/system/core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25b15be9120bcdaa0aba622c67ad2c835d9e91ca
http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2011/01/adb-trickery-again.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2
http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss/browse_thread/thread/15f97658c88d6827/e86db04652651971?show_docid=e86db04652651971
https://github.com/tmzt/g2root-kmod/tree/scotty2/scotty2
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c98a285075f26e2b17a5baa2cb3eb6356a75597e
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/system/core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25b15be9120bcdaa0aba622c67ad2c835d9e91ca
http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2011/01/adb-trickery-again.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2
http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss/browse_thread/thread/15f97658c88d6827/e86db04652651971?show_docid=e86db04652651971
https://github.com/tmzt/g2root-kmod/tree/scotty2/scotty2

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