CVE-2024-33055 Use After Free in Computer Vision

Medium 6.7 Published Updated

A use-after-free vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon computer vision allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges via IOCTL calls.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
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An administrator
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-33055?

CVE-2024-33055 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Fastconnect 6900 Firmware, published on 6 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory corruption while invoking IOCTL calls to unmap the DMA buffers.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-33055?

It affects 39 products.

Products include Qualcomm Fastconnect 6900 Firmware, Qualcomm Fastconnect 7800 Firmware, Qualcomm Qam8295p Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6574au Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6696 Firmware, Qualcomm Qcm8550 Firmware and 33 more.

How do I fix CVE-2024-33055?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-33055 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-2024-33055 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-33055 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Fastconnect 6900 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-4fvr-c9qm-r85w.

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