Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-3640 - Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size vulnerability in Qualcomm products

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
qualcomm
CWE-131

Summary

u'Resizing the usage table header before passing all the checks leads to the function exiting with a usage table in invalid state when a HLOS adversary calls the function with wrong input' in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in Bitra, Kamorta, QCS404, QCS610, Rennell, Saipan, SC7180, SDX55, SM6150, SM7150, SM8250, SXR2130

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    In this attack, the target software is given input that the attacker knows will be modified and expanded in size during processing. This attack relies on the target software failing to anticipate that the expanded data may exceed some internal limit, thereby creating a buffer overflow.