CVE-2024-33040 Use After Free in Camera Driver
A race condition in the Qualcomm Snapdragon camera driver allows a use-after-free, potentially enabling code execution or privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-33040?
CVE-2024-33040 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Fastconnect 6800 Firmware, published on 2 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Memory corruption while invoking redundant release command to release one buffer from user space as race condition can occur in kernel space between buffer release and buffer access.
Weakness: CWE-416
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-33040?
It affects 30 products.
Products include Qualcomm Fastconnect 6800 Firmware, Qualcomm Fastconnect 6900 Firmware, Qualcomm Fastconnect 7800 Firmware, Qualcomm Qam8255p Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6391 Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6426 Firmware and 24 more.
How do I fix CVE-2024-33040?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-33040 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2024-33040 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-33040 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Qualcomm Fastconnect 6800 Firmware
- CVE-2023-28581 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in WLAN Firmware
- CVE-2025-27037 Use After Free in Camera Driver
- CVE-2025-21455 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Camera_Linux
- CVE-2025-21474 Use After Free in BTHOST
- CVE-2024-45566 Use After Free in Camera Driver
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4vfq-29m3-4mf8.