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CVE-2011-3918

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-10-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

• Android: through 4.0.3; 1.0, 1.1, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.0.1 (+25)

References

• http://www.ai-lab.it/merlo/publications/DoSAndroid.pdf
• 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
• https://code.google.com/p/android-source-browsing/source/detail?repo=platform--system--core&r=e7fd911fd42b

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