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CVE-2020-11179

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Arbitrary read and write to kernel addresses by temporarily overwriting ring buffer pointer and creating a race condition. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

Affected products

• Qualcomm Apq8009: all versions
• Qualcomm Apq8009W: all versions
• Qualcomm Apq8017: all versions
• Qualcomm Apq8037: all versions
• Qualcomm Apq8053: all versions
• Qualcomm Apq8064Au: all versions
• Qualcomm Apq8096Au: all versions
• Qualcomm Aqt1000: all versions
• Qualcomm Ar8031: all versions
• Qualcomm Ar8035: all versions
• Qualcomm Ar8151: all versions
• Qualcomm Csra6620: all versions
• Qualcomm Csra6640: all versions
• Qualcomm Csrb31024: all versions
• Qualcomm Fsm10055: all versions
• Qualcomm Fsm10056: all versions
• Qualcomm Mdm9206: all versions
• Qualcomm Mdm9650: all versions
• Qualcomm Msm8909W: all versions
• Qualcomm Msm8917: all versions
• Qualcomm Msm8920: all versions
• Qualcomm Msm8937: all versions
• Qualcomm Msm8940: all versions
• Qualcomm Msm8953: all versions
• Qualcomm Msm8996Au: all versions
• Qualcomm Pm215: all versions
• Qualcomm Pm3003A: all versions
• Qualcomm Pm4125: all versions
• Qualcomm Pm439: all versions
• Qualcomm Pm456: all versions

References

• https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins/december-2020-bulletin
• https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins/december-2020-security-bulletin
• https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins/december-2020-bulletin

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