CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2020-21406 — V88 Smart Tv Box Project V88 Smart Tv Box Firmware security vulnerability
High
CVSS 7.5
An issue was discovered in RK Smart TV Box MAX and V88 SmartTV box that allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the switchNextDisplayInterface service.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2022-07-20
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
Affected products
- v88_smart_tv_box_project / v88_smart_tv_box_firmware
- rk_max_smart_tv_box_project / rk_max_smart_tv_box_firmware
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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