CVE-2024-38401 Use After Free in Qualcomm IPC
Attackers can exploit a use-after-free flaw in Qualcomm IPC to achieve code execution or privilege escalation on Snapdragon devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-38401?
CVE-2024-38401 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Ar8035 Firmware, published on 2 Sep 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Memory corruption while processing concurrent IOCTL calls.
Weakness: CWE-416
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-38401?
It affects 40 products.
Products include Qualcomm Ar8035 Firmware, Qualcomm C-V2x 9150 Firmware, Qualcomm Fastconnect 7800 Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6574a Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6584au Firmware, Qualcomm Qca6595au Firmware and 34 more.
How do I fix CVE-2024-38401?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-38401 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-2024-38401 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38401 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Qualcomm Ar8035 Firmware
- CVE-2023-33106 Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Use of Out-of-Range Pointer Offset
- CVE-2024-45569 Improper Validation of Array Index in WLAN Host Communication
- CVE-2024-21473 Improper Input Validation in WIN SON
- CVE-2023-28582 Buffer Copy Without Checking Size of Input in Data Modem
- CVE-2023-43552 Use After Free in WLAN Host Communication
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7466-qh58-434w.