CVE-2024-20089 Denial of service in MT6835, MT6878, MT6886, MT6897, MT6980, MT6985, MT6989, MT6990, MT8678, MT8775, MT8792, MT8796

What is CVE-2024-20089?

CVE-2024-20089 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 2 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In wlan, there is a possible denial of service due to incorrect error handling. This could lead to remote denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS08861558; Issue ID: MSV-1526.

Weakness: CWE-754, CWE-703

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-20089?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2024-20089?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-20089 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-2024-20089 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20089 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-c2mc-mh9m-r94v.