Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto up to XR2 5G Platform Hypervisor memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon MDM, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Technology. It has been rated as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component Hypervisor. This manipulation causes memory corruption. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-38420. The attack can only be executed locally. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon MDM, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Technology. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component Hypervisor. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Memory corruption while configuring a Hypervisor based input virtual device.

The advisory is shared at docs.qualcomm.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-38420 since 06/16/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/05/2025).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.1
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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

06/16/2024 🔍
02/03/2025 +232 days 🔍
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02/05/2025 +2 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: qualcomm.com

Advisory: docs.qualcomm.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-38420 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-38420
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-294469

Entryinfo

Created: 02/03/2025 18:21
Updated: 02/05/2025 15:09
Changes: 02/03/2025 18:21 (64), 02/05/2025 15:09 (12)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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