CVE-2022-33239 Denial of service in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking

High 7.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a transient denial of service in Qualcomm Snapdragon devices by sending crafted IPv6 extension headers to the WLAN firmware.

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-2022-33239?

CVE-2022-33239 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, published on 15 Nov 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 firmware while parsing IPV6 extension header. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-33239?

It affects 234 products.

Products include Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware, Qualcomm Apq8096au Firmware, Qualcomm Aqt1000 Firmware, Qualcomm Ar8031 Firmware, Qualcomm Ar8035 Firmware and 228 more.

How do I fix CVE-2022-33239?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-33239 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-2022-33239 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-33239 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-x8gx-vm44-mv77.

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