CVE-2020-11171 Memory corruption in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

Critical 9.1 Published Updated

Attackers can trigger a buffer over-read in SDP parsing, potentially causing crashes or leaking memory in Qualcomm Snapdragon devices.

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-2020-11171?

CVE-2020-11171 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, published on 17 Mar 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer over-read can happen while parsing received SDP values due to lack of NULL termination check on SDP in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11171?

It affects 385 products.

Products include Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8009w Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8037 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8053 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8096au Firmware and 379 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-11171?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-11171 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2020-11171 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11171 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-38fh-5rpq-pxq2.

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