CVE-2020-0196 Denial of service in Android

What is CVE-2020-0196?

CVE-2020-0196 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 11 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In RegisterNotificationResponse::GetEvent of register_notification_packet.cc, there is a possible abort due to improper input validation. This could lead to remote denial of service of the Bluetooth service, over Bluetooth, with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10Android ID: A-144066833

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-0196?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2020-0196?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-0196 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-2020-0196 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-0196 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-3654-92rm-xcmh.