CVE-2019-10520 Denial of service in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music

Medium 5.5 Published 12 Dec 2019 Updated 4 Aug 2024

An unprivileged application can exhaust GPU memory via ioctl calls, causing a denial of service on Qualcomm Snapdragon devices.

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-2019-10520?

CVE-2019-10520 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qualcomm Qcs405 Firmware, published on 12 Dec 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An unprivileged application can allocate GPU memory by calling memory allocation ioctl function and can exhaust all the memory which results in out of memory in Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in QCS405, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 665, SD 675, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 730, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855

Weakness: CWE-772

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10520?

It affects 13 products.

Products include Qualcomm Qcs405 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 205 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 210 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 212 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 665 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 670 Firmware and 7 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10520?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-10520 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-2019-10520 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10520 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Qcs405 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-g588-g6rv-8pfg.