Resource exhaustion in Google Android - CVE-2019-20612
Published: March 24, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU34621
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20612
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Android
Google Android
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x) and O(8.x) (Broadcom Wi-Fi, and SEC Wi-Fi chipsets) software. Wi-Fi allows a denial of service via TCP SYN packets. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-13162 (March 2019).
How to mitigate CVE-2019-20612
Install update from vendor's website.