CVE-2011-1149 Information

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.

Reference

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=commit;h=c98a285075f26e2b17a5baa2cb3eb6356a75597e http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/system/core.git;a=commit;h=25b15be9120bcdaa0aba622c67ad2c835d9e91ca http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2011/01/adb-trickery-again.html http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_VisionRooting_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