CVE-2024-38412 Use After Free in Computer Vision

Medium 6.6 Published Updated

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

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-2024-38412?

CVE-2024-38412 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Qualcomm Fastconnect 7800 Firmware, published on 3 Feb 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 from user-space to kernel-space to handle session errors.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-38412?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Qualcomm Fastconnect 7800 Firmware, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Firmware, Qualcomm Wcd9390 Firmware, Qualcomm Wcd9395 Firmware, Qualcomm Wsa8840 Firmware, Qualcomm Wsa8845 Firmware and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2024-38412?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-38412 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-2024-38412 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-38412 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Fastconnect 7800 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-f9gr-v8v5-3f2v.

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