CVE-2019-2314 Use after free in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

High 7.0 Published Updated

A race condition in Qualcomm Snapdragon firmware allows attackers to trigger a use-after-free via concurrent sysfs writes, potentially enabling code execution or privilege escalation.

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-2019-2314?

CVE-2019-2314 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware, published on 25 Jul 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Possible race condition that will cause a use-after-free when writing to two sysfs entries at nearly the same time in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables in MSM8909W, QCS405, QCS605, Qualcomm 215, SD 425, SD 439 / SD 429, SD 450, SD 625, SD 632, SD 636, SD 665, SD 675, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 730, SD 845 / SD 850, SD 855, SDM439, SDM660, SDX20, SDX24

Weakness: CWE-416, CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2314?

It affects 24 products.

Products include Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware, Qualcomm Qcs405 Firmware, Qualcomm Qcs605 Firmware, Qualcomm Qualcomm 215 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 425 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 429 Firmware and 18 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-2314?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-2314 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-2019-2314 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2314 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-9mpv-3fwv-j55x.

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