CVE-2020-11255 Denial of service in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables

High 7.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause denial of service in Qualcomm Snapdragon devices by sending crafted RTCP packets that trigger memory leaks.

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-2020-11255?

CVE-2020-11255 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, published on 7 Apr 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Denial of service while processing RTCP packets containing multiple SDES reports due to memory for last SDES packet is freed and rest of the memory is leaked in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11255?

It affects 344 products.

Products include Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8037 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8053 Firmware, Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware, Qualcomm Csrb31024 Firmware and 338 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-11255?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-11255 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-2020-11255 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11255 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-gwfq-9r54-hp7m.

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