CVE-2021-25345 Denial of service in Samsung Mobile Devices

What is CVE-2021-25345?

CVE-2021-25345 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 4 Mar 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Graphic format mismatch while converting video format in hwcomposer prior to SMR Mar-2021 Release 1 results in kernel panic due to unsupported format.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-25345?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2021-25345?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-25345 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-2021-25345 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-25345 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g7qv-r3gj-p6h6.