CVE-2016-10416 Denial of service in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear

High 7.5 Published Updated

An attacker can cause a device crash by exhausting IPC memory via UDP traffic to the UserPlane Location protocol port on affected Qualcomm Snapdragon devices.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2016-10416?

CVE-2016-10416 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware, published on 18 Apr 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9615, MDM9625, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 600, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, and SD 820, UE crash is seen due to IPCMem exhaustion, when UDP data is pumped to UE's ULP (UserPlane Location protocol) UDP port 7275.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10416?

It affects 29 products.

Products include Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9607 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9615 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9625 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9635m Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9640 Firmware and 23 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-10416?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-10416 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-10416 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10416 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-m8fc-35q9-4pcq.

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