CVE-2009-2999

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-10-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The com.android.phone process in Android 1.5 CRBxx allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application restart and network disconnection) via an SMS message containing a malformed WAP Push message that triggers an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exception, possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-2656.

Affected products

Android: 1.5

References

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=46e23fe762d2143d60589ab6d39c4b47c2c754d1
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022986
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-014.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506948/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53655
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=46e23fe762d2143d60589ab6d39c4b47c2c754d1
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022986
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-014.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506948/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53655

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