# CVE-2020-11179: Race condition in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables > Attackers can exploit a race condition to overwrite kernel pointers, enabling arbitrary memory read and write operations on Qualcomm Snapdragon devices. - **Severity:** High 7.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`) - **Exploited in the wild:** Not known - **Login needed:** Any signed-in user - **Attackable:** Local or same network only - **Victim action needed:** Not needed - **Fix available:** No - **Published:** 21 Jan 2021 - **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024 - **Also known as:** GHSA-9pw4-685c-rqj9 ## What is CVE-2020-11179? CVE-2020-11179 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, published on 21 Jan 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim. ### Official description Arbitrary read and write to kernel addresses by temporarily overwriting ring buffer pointer and creating a race condition. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables Weakness: CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write), CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read) ## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11179? It affects 404 products. Products: Qualcomm Apq8009, Qualcomm Apq8009w, Qualcomm Apq8017, Qualcomm Apq8037, Qualcomm Apq8053, Qualcomm Apq8064au, Qualcomm Apq8096au, Qualcomm Aqt1000, Qualcomm Ar8031, Qualcomm Ar8035, Qualcomm Ar8151, Qualcomm Csra6620, Qualcomm Csra6640, Qualcomm Csrb31024, Qualcomm Fsm10055, Qualcomm Fsm10056, Qualcomm Mdm9206, Qualcomm Mdm9650, Qualcomm Msm8909w, Qualcomm Msm8917 and 384 more. ## How do I fix CVE-2020-11179? No fix has been published for CVE-2020-11179 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. ## Is CVE-2020-11179 being exploited? There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11179 in the wild and no public exploit code. Public exploit code: - Productization efforts of CVE-2020-11179 Adreno-Qualcomm-GPU bug, original poc by Ben Hawkes of P0 (github_poc): https://github.com/sparrow-labz/CVE-2020-11179-Adreno-Qualcomm-GPU ## Other vulnerabilities in Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables - [CVE-2020-11283](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11283/): Memory corruption in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables (critical 9.8) - [CVE-2020-11136](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11136/): Memory corruption in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking (critical 9.8) - [CVE-2020-11137](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11137/): Integer overflow in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking (critical 9.8) - [CVE-2020-11138](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11138/): Null dereference in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking (critical 9.8) - [CVE-2020-11143](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11143/): Memory corruption in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking (critical 9.8) ## Fix prompt for AI coding agents ```text Check this codebase for CVE-2020-11179 and fix it if it is affected. What it is: CVE-2020-11179 is a high-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, published on 21 Jan 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim. Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11179 in the wild and no public exploit code. Affected product: Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page. Task: 1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies. 2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it. 3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead. 4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why. 5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing. Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11179/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11179/index.md) ``` ## Sources - CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11179 - NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11179 - OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-11179 --- From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11179/ Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.