Qualcomm Snapdragon Compute up to WSA8845H IOCTL Call memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Qualcomm Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity and Snapdragon Wearables. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component IOCTL Call Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-43053. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity and Snapdragon Wearables. This issue affects an unknown code of the component IOCTL Call Handler. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Memory corruption while invoking IOCTL calls from user space to read WLAN target diagnostic information.

It is possible to read the advisory at docs.qualcomm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-43053 since 08/05/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. 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 12/02/2024).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Chip Software

Vendor

• Qualcomm

Name

• Snapdragon Compute
• Snapdragon Connectivity
• Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity
• Snapdragon Wearables

Version

• 7c+ Gen 3 Compute
• 429 Mobile Platform
• FastConnect 6700
• FastConnect 6900
• FastConnect 7800
• QCA2062
• QCA2064
• QCA2065
• QCA2066
• QCC2073
• QCC2076
• SC8380XP
• SDM429W
• WCD9380
• WCD9385
• WCN3620
• WCN3660B
• WSA8840
• WSA8845
• WSA8845H

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.qualcomm.com/

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