CVE-2022-20438 Denial of service in Android

What is CVE-2022-20438?

CVE-2022-20438 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 11 Oct 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Messaging, There has unauthorized broadcast, this could cause Local Deny of Service.Product: AndroidVersions: Android SoCAndroid ID: A-242259920

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20438?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2022-20438?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2022-20438 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20438 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-9x39-xf9p-4wrq.