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CVE-2017-11076: On some hardware revisions where VP9 decoding is hardware-accelerated, the frame size is not programmed…
CVE-2017-11076 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and NVD lists 27 affected products, including Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication, without any user interaction. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.
Vulnerability description
On some hardware revisions where VP9 decoding is hardware-accelerated, the frame size is not programmed correctly into the decoder hardware which can lead to an invalid memory access by the decoder.
Severity breakdown
CVSS v3.1 9.8: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network, with no need for local or physical access.
- Attack complexity: Low. No special conditions; the attack can be repeated reliably.
- Privileges required: None. No account or prior access is needed.
- User interaction: None. No action from any user is needed.
- Scope: Unchanged. Impact stays within the vulnerable component.
- Confidentiality impact: High. Total loss of confidentiality; sensitive data can be fully disclosed.
- Integrity impact: High. Total loss of integrity; data or system state can be fully modified.
- Availability impact: High. Total loss of availability; the component can be shut down.
Underlying weakness
CWE-823: Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset
The product performs pointer arithmetic on a valid pointer, but it uses an offset that can point outside of the intended range of valid memory locations for the resulting pointer.
CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.
Affected products
- Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm Msm8996au Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 210 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 212 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 205 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 425 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 427 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 430 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 435 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 450 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 615 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 616 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 415 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 625 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD
- Qualcomm SD 810 Firmware: all versions listed by NVD