Race condition in Google Android - CVE-2020-10843

 

Race condition in Google Android - CVE-2020-10843

Published: March 24, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU34699
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10843
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Android

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with O(8.x), P(9.0), and Q(10.0) (S.LSI chipsets) software. There are race conditions in the hdcp2 driver. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-16296 (February 2020).


How to mitigate CVE-2020-10843

Install update from vendor's website.

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