CVE-2019-10529 Use after free in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

High 8.1 Published Updated

A race condition in Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets allows attackers to trigger a use-after-free vulnerability, potentially leading to code execution or privilege escalation.

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-2019-10529?

CVE-2019-10529 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Mdm9150 Firmware, published on 6 Nov 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Possible use after free issue due to race condition while attempting to mark the entry pages as dirty using function set_page_dirty() in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in MDM9150, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, QCS405, QCS605, Qualcomm 215, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 425, SD 439 / SD 429, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 632, SD 636, SD 665, SD 675, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 730, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855, SDA660, SDM439, SDM630, SDM660, SDX20, SDX24

Weakness: CWE-416, CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10529?

It affects 41 products.

Products include Qualcomm Mdm9150 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9607 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9640 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9650 Firmware, Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware and 35 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10529?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-10529 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-2019-10529 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-10529 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

All Qualcomm Mdm9150 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-wj4r-fjmv-42x4.

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