PT-2020-11826 · Google · Android

Published 2020-12-15 · Updated 2021-07-21 · CVE-2020-0491

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions Android-11

Description The issue is related to a possible denial of service due to resource exhaustion in the readBlock function of MatroskaExtractor.cpp. This could lead to a remote denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed, requiring user interaction for exploitation.

Recommendations For Android version Android-11, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Fix

Memory Leak

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-401

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-0491

Affected Products

Android

References · 3

• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2020-12-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-0491 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-0491 · Security Note