CVE-2019-2337 Denial of service in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables

High 7.5 Published Updated

A buffer over-read in Qualcomm Snapdragon firmware can cause device shutdown when processing malformed IES data.

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-2019-2337?

CVE-2019-2337 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8053 Firmware, published on 12 Dec 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

While Skipping unknown IES, EMM is reading the buffer even if the no of bytes to read are more than message length which may cause device to shutdown in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables in APQ8053, APQ8096AU, APQ8098, MDM9150, MDM9205, MDM9206, MDM9640, MDM9650, MDM9655, MSM8905, MSM8909, MSM8909W, MSM8917, MSM8920, MSM8937, MSM8940, MSM8953, MSM8976, MSM8996AU, MSM8998, Nicobar, QCM2150, QCS605, QM215, SC8180X, SDA660, SDA845, SDM429, SDM439, SDM450, SDM630, SDM632, SDM636, SDM660, SDM670, SDM710, SDM845, SDM850, SDX20, SDX24, SDX55, SM6150, SM7150, SM8150, SM8250, Snapdragon_High_Med_2016, SXR1130, SXR2130

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2337?

It affects 48 products.

Products include Qualcomm Apq8053 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8096au Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8098 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9150 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9205 Firmware, Qualcomm Mdm9206 Firmware and 42 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-2337?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-2337 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-2019-2337 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2337 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Apq8053 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-5gm2-9h87-hc2f.

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