CVE-2021-1914 Denial of service in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables
Attackers can cause a denial of service via an infinite loop in Qualcomm Snapdragon firmware due to improper input handling.
- 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-2021-1914?
CVE-2021-1914 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, published on 8 Sep 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Loop with unreachable exit condition may occur due to improper handling of unsupported input in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables
Weakness: CWE-835
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-1914?
It affects 155 products.
Products include Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8009w Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8037 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8053 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8096au Firmware and 149 more.
How do I fix CVE-2021-1914?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-1914 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-2021-1914 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-1914 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware
- CVE-2021-1905 Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Use-After-Free
- CVE-2020-11261 Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Improper Input Validation
- CVE-2021-1906 Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Detection of Error Condition Without Action
- CVE-2022-40510 Buffer copy without checking size of input in Audio.
- CVE-2022-22088 Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow in Bluetooth HOST
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q24c-8cpc-8x8c.