PT-2019-16029 · Google · Android

Published 2019-02-28 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2019-1998

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android version 9

Description The issue is related to a possible resource exhaustion in the event handler of keymaster app.c. This could lead to a local denial of service that persists even after a factory reset, without requiring any additional execution privileges. The exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

Recommendations For Android version 9, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-1998

Affected Products

Android

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1998 · Security Note
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2019-02-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1998 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/106946 · Note