CVE-2024-20051 Denial of service in MT2713, MT2737, MT6781, MT6789, MT6835, MT6855, MT6879, MT6880, MT6886, MT6890, MT6895, MT6980, MT6983, MT6985, MT6989, MT6990, MT8167, MT8168, MT8173, MT8175, MT8188, MT8195, MT8321, MT8362A, MT8365, MT8385, MT8390, MT8395, MT8666, MT8667, MT8673, MT8765, MT8766, MT8768, MT8781, MT8786, MT8788, MT8789, MT8791, MT8791T, MT8796, MT8797, MT8798

What is CVE-2024-20051?

CVE-2024-20051 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 1 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In flashc, there is a possible system crash due to an uncaught exception. This could lead to local denial of service with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS08541757; Issue ID: ALPS08541758.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-20051?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Google Android, Linuxfoundation Yocto, Openwrt Openwrt, Rdkcentral Rdk-B.

How do I fix CVE-2024-20051?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-20051 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-2024-20051 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20051 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q9w5-9j33-5prx.