CVE-2018-13925 Use after free in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables

Critical 9.8 Published Updated

A heap use-after-free vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon firmware allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via crafted PMT table data.

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-2018-13925?

CVE-2018-13925 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware, published on 24 May 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Error in parsing PMT table frees the memory allocated for the map section but does not reset the context map section reference causing heap use after free issue in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables in MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, QCS605, Qualcomm 215, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 439 / SD 429, SD 450, SD 600, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 632, SD 636, SD 650/52, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855, SDA660, SDM439, SDM630, SDM660, SDX20, Snapdragon_High_Med_2016, SXR1130

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-13925?

It affects 42 products.

Products include Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9607 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9650 Firmware, Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware, Qualcomm Msm8996au Firmware, Qualcomm Qcs605 Firmware and 36 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-13925?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-13925 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2018-13925 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-13925 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-rrm5-pp2w-23m8.

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