CVE-2022-26428 Race condition in MT6739, MT6761, MT6765, MT6771, MT8163, MT8167, MT8173, MT8183, MT8362A, MT8385, MT8695

What is CVE-2022-26428?

CVE-2022-26428 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 1 Aug 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In video codec, there is a possible memory corruption due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS06521260; Issue ID: ALPS06521260.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-26428?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2022-26428?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-26428 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-26428 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-26428 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-9frc-28r7-wx7x.