CVE-2011-3918 Information

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.

Reference

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