Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto WLAN buffer overflow

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A vulnerability has been found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables and Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking and classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component WLAN. Performing a manipulation results in buffer overflow. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-33235. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables and Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking (Chip Software). This affects an unknown part of the component WLAN. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Information disclosure due to buffer over-read in WLAN firmware while parsing security context info attributes. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking

The weakness was presented 12/13/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at qualcomm.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-33235 since 06/14/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/10/2026).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2022-36278). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Chip Software

Vendor

• Qualcomm

Name

• Snapdragon Auto
• Snapdragon Compute
• Snapdragon Connectivity
• Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity
• Snapdragon Consumer IOT
• Snapdragon Industrial IOT
• Snapdragon Mobile
• Snapdragon Voice & Music
• Snapdragon Wearables
• Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.qualcomm.com/

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