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CVE-2011-1149

Published: Apr 21, 2011

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/system/core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25b15be9120bcdaa0aba622c67ad2c835d9e91ca

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss/browse_thread/thread/15f97658c88d6827/e86db04652651971?show_docid=e86db04652651971

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c98a285075f26e2b17a5baa2cb3eb6356a75597e

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2011/01/adb-trickery-again.html

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/tmzt/g2root-kmod/tree/scotty2/scotty2

x_refsource_MISC

http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2

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