CVE-2019-10517 Use after free in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

High 7.8 Published Updated

A double-free vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon firmware allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause denial of service via concurrent thread execution.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2019-10517?

CVE-2019-10517 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, published on 18 Dec 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory is being freed up twice when two concurrent threads are executing in parallel in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in APQ8009, APQ8017, APQ8053, APQ8096, APQ8096AU, APQ8098, MDM9206, MDM9207C, MDM9607, MDM9650, MSM8909, MSM8909W, MSM8917, MSM8920, MSM8937, MSM8939, MSM8940, MSM8996AU, QCS405, QCS605, SDA660, SDA845, SDM630, SDM636, SDM660, SDM845, SDX20, SM6150, SM7150, SM8150, SM8250, SXR1130, SXR2130

Weakness: CWE-415

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10517?

It affects 33 products.

Products include Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8053 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8096 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8096au Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8098 Firmware and 27 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10517?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-10517 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-2019-10517 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10517 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vgqq-h86w-px39.

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