CVE-2022-24925 Denial of service in Samsung Mobile Devices
Privileged attackers can trigger a permanent denial of service on Samsung Android devices via improper input validation in SettingsProvider.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-24925?
CVE-2022-24925 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 11 Feb 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Improper input validation vulnerability in SettingsProvider prior to Android S(12) allows privileged attackers to trigger a permanent denial of service attack on a victim's devices.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-24925?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2022-24925?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-24925 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-2022-24925 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24925 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4hmm-767m-727p.