CVE-2022-21746 Denial of service in MT6771, MT6779, MT6781, MT6785, MT6833, MT6853, MT6873, MT6885, MT6893, MT8167, MT8167S, MT8168, MT8175, MT8362A, MT8365, MT8788

What is CVE-2022-21746?

CVE-2022-21746 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 6 Jun 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In imgsensor, there is a possible out of bounds read due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local denial of service with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS06479698; Issue ID: ALPS06479698.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-21746?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2022-21746?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-21746 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-2022-21746 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-21746 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-pj35-xvhx-rhgw.