CVE-2019-14072 Use after free in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables
A race condition in Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs causes a use-after-free error, leading to system crashes via unhandled paging requests.
- 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-2019-14072?
CVE-2019-14072 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, published on 5 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unhandled paging request is observed due to dereferencing an already freed object because of race condition between sparse free and sparse bind ioctls which access the same physical entry in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in APQ8009, APQ8096AU, APQ8098, MDM9607, MSM8909W, MSM8939, MSM8953, MSM8996AU, Nicobar, QCS405, QCS605, Rennell, SA6155P, Saipan, SC8180X, SDA660, SDA845, SDM429, SDM429W, SDM450, SDM632, SDM670, SDM710, SDM845, SDX24, SDX55, SM6150, SM7150, SM8150, SM8250, SXR1130, SXR2130
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14072?
It affects 32 products.
Products include Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8096au Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8098 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9607 Firmware, Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware, Qualcomm Msm8939 Firmware and 26 more.
How do I fix CVE-2019-14072?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-14072 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-2019-14072 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14072 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2020-11261 Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Improper Input Validation
- CVE-2021-1906 Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Detection of Error Condition Without Action
- CVE-2022-40510 Buffer copy without checking size of input in Audio.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-p674-869c-g45q.