Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto up to SDX24 WLAN memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT and Snapdragon Mobile. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component WLAN. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-5911. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT and Snapdragon Mobile (Chip Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component WLAN. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in WLAN function due to improper check of buffer size before copying in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in MDM9150, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8996AU, QCS605, SD 625, SD 636, SD 675, SD 712 / SD 710 / SD 670, SD 730, SD 820A, SD 855, SDM630, SDM660, SDX20, SDX24

The weakness was disclosed 06/14/2019 (Website). The advisory is available at codeaurora.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-5911 since 01/19/2018. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/24/2020).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• Chip Software

Vendor

• Qualcomm

Name

• Snapdragon Auto
• Snapdragon Consumer IOT
• Snapdragon Industrial IOT
• Snapdragon Mobile

Version

• MDM9150
• MDM9206
• MDM9607
• MDM9640
• MDM9650
• MSM8996AU
• QCS605
• SD 625
• SD 636
• SD 670
• SD 675
• SD 710
• SD 712
• SD 730
• SD 820A
• SD 855
• SDM630
• SDM660
• SDX20
• SDX24

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.qualcomm.com/

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