CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2021-0313 — In isWordBreakAfter of LayoutUtils.cpp, there is a possible way to slow or crash a TextView due to improper input validation
High
CVSS 7.8
In isWordBreakAfter of LayoutUtils.cpp, there is a possible way to slow or crash a TextView due to improper input validation. This could lead to remote denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Product: Android; Versions: Android-9, Android-10, Android-11, Android-8.0, Android-8.1; Android ID: A-170968514.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (2.0)
- Published
- 2021-01-11
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
- google / android / 8.0
- google / android / 8.1
- google / android / 9.0
- google / android / 10.0
- google / android / 11.0
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
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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