CVE-2022-33238 Denial of service in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking
An attacker can cause a transient denial of service in Qualcomm Snapdragon devices by sending specially crafted FTM frames that trigger an infinite loop.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-33238?
CVE-2022-33238 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, published on 13 Dec 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Transient DOS due to loop with unreachable exit condition in WLAN while processing an incoming FTM frames. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking
Weakness: CWE-835
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-33238?
It affects 284 products.
Products include Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8064au Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8076 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8096au Firmware, Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware and 278 more.
How do I fix CVE-2022-33238?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-33238 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-2022-33238 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-33238 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware
- CVE-2021-1905 Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Use-After-Free
- CVE-2020-11261 Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Improper Input Validation
- CVE-2021-1906 Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Detection of Error Condition Without Action
- CVE-2022-40510 Buffer copy without checking size of input in Audio.
- CVE-2022-22088 Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow in Bluetooth HOST
Sources
Also known as GHSA-55w2-fcw3-jr3f.