CVE-2020-11160 Denial of service in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

Medium 6.7 Published Updated

A resource leakage in Qualcomm Snapdragon firmware can lead to denial of service due to improper reference counting during client registration failures.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-11160?

CVE-2020-11160 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8096au Firmware, published on 9 Jun 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Resource leakage issue during dci client registration due to reference count is not decremented if dci client registration fails in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

Weakness: CWE-190

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11160?

It affects 145 products.

Products include Qualcomm Apq8096au Firmware, Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware, Qualcomm Ar8031 Firmware, Qualcomm Ar8035 Firmware, Qualcomm Csra6620 Firmware, Qualcomm Csra6640 Firmware and 139 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-11160?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-11160 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-2020-11160 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11160 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Apq8096au Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-37g9-8cjr-x358.

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