MediaTek MT8788 WLAN Firmware denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in MediaTek MT6739, MT8167, MT8168, MT8321, MT8365, MT8385, MT8666, MT8765 and MT8788. Impacted is an unknown function of the component WLAN Firmware. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-20692. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in MediaTek MT6739, MT8167, MT8168, MT8321, MT8365, MT8385, MT8666, MT8765 and MT8788 (Chip Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component WLAN Firmware. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In wlan firmware, there is possible system crash due to an uncaught exception. This could lead to remote denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS07664720; Issue ID: ALPS07664720.

The weakness was released 07/04/2023 as ALPS07664720. The advisory is available at corp.mediatek.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-20692 since 10/28/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying the patch ALPS07664720 is able to eliminate this problem.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.3

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Remote: Yes

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Patch: ALPS07664720

Timelineinfo

10/28/2022 🔍
07/04/2023 +249 days 🔍
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07/22/2023 +18 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: ALPS07664720
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-20692 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-20692
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-232886

Entryinfo

Created: 07/04/2023 06:57
Updated: 07/22/2023 16:57
Changes: 07/04/2023 06:57 (41), 07/22/2023 16:57 (10)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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