CVE-2020-11230 Race condition in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile
A race condition in the qseecom driver allows arbitrary memory corruption, potentially enabling code execution on Qualcomm Snapdragon devices.
- 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-2020-11230?
CVE-2020-11230 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware, published on 17 Mar 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Potential arbitrary memory corruption when the qseecom driver updates ion physical addresses in the buffer as it exposes a physical address to user land in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile
Weakness: CWE-367
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11230?
It affects 180 products.
Products include Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware, Qualcomm Fsm10055 Firmware, Qualcomm Pm3003a Firmware, Qualcomm Pm7150a Firmware, Qualcomm Pm7150l Firmware, Qualcomm Pm7250 Firmware and 174 more.
How do I fix CVE-2020-11230?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-11230 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-11230 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11230 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2023-28562 Buffer Copy Without Checking Size of Input in QESL
- CVE-2022-40514 Buffer copy without checking size of input in WLAN Firmware
- CVE-2022-22096 Memory corruption in Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Mobile
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xr98-m4fj-5f9p.