CVE-2019-20612 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-20612?

CVE-2019-20612 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 24 Mar 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x) and O(8.x) (Broadcom Wi-Fi, and SEC Wi-Fi chipsets) software. Wi-Fi allows a denial of service via TCP SYN packets. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-13162 (March 2019).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-20612?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2019-20612?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-20612 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-2019-20612 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-20612 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wfh6-27vj-7gv4.