CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2018-11828 — Qualcomm Sd 210 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8

When FW tries to get random mac address generated from new SW RNG and ADC values read are constant then DUT get struck in loop while trying to get random ADC samples in Snapdragon Mobile in version SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 625, SD 650/52

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (2.0)
Published
2018-10-26
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • qualcomm / sd_210_firmware
  • qualcomm / sd_212_firmware
  • qualcomm / sd_205_firmware
  • qualcomm / sd_425_firmware
  • qualcomm / sd_430_firmware
  • qualcomm / sd_450_firmware

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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