CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-10561 — Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

Improper initialization of local variables which are parameters to sfs api may cause invalid pointer dereference and leads to denial of service in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in APQ8009, APQ8017, APQ8053, APQ8096, APQ8096AU, APQ8098, MDM9206, MDM9607, MSM8905, MSM8909, MSM8909W, MSM8917, MSM8920, MSM8937, MSM8940, MSM8953, MSM8996, MSM8996AU, MSM8998, QM215, SDA660, SDM429, SDM439, SDM450, SDM630, SDM632, SDM636, SDM660

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-01-21
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • qualcomm / apq8009_firmware
  • qualcomm / apq8017_firmware
  • qualcomm / apq8053_firmware
  • qualcomm / apq8096_firmware
  • qualcomm / apq8096au_firmware
  • qualcomm / apq8098_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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