Summary In this advisory we are disclosing a heap overflow vulnerability in the MediaTek baseband. The vulnerability can be exploited to gain arbitrary code execution in the context of the baseband runtime. The vulnerability was fixed in 2020 in some models, and received a CVE and more widely deployed fix in 2021. Vulnerability Details When processing the CSN.1 decoding of the “UTRAN (3G) Individual Priority Parameters” element, the function rr_decode_3g_individual_priority_para_description implements a two-depth nested repetition (Repeated Individual UTRAN Priority Parameters Description struct and its child element FDD-ARFCN). The outer loop is iterated by checking the single bit representing the ongoing repetition, and while that equals “1”, a new Repeated Individual UTRAN Priority Parameters Description struct is processed.

Summary In this advisory we are disclosing a heap overflow vulnerability in the MediaTek baseband. The vulnerability can be exploited to gain arbitrary code execution in the context of the baseband runtime. The vulnerability was fixed in 2020 in some models, and received a CVE and more widely deployed fix in 2021. Vulnerability Details When processing the CSN.1 decoding of the “E-UTRAN IPP with extended EARFCNs” element, the function rr_decode_eutran_ipp_extended_earfcns implements a two-depth nested repetition (Repeated Individual E-UTRAN PP with extended EARFCNs Description struct and its child element EARFCN_extended). The outer loop is iterated by checking the single bit representing the ongoing repetition, and while that equals “1”, a new Repeated Individual E-UTRAN PP with extended EARFCNs Description struct is processed.

Summary In this advisory we are disclosing a heap overflow vulnerability in the MediaTek baseband. The vulnerability can be exploited to gain arbitrary code execution in the context of the baseband runtime. The vulnerability was fixed in 2020 in some models, and received a CVE and more widely deployed fix in 2021. Vulnerability Details When processing the GSM Radio Resource Management Channel Release message, the CSN.1 decoding of the “Cell selection indicator after release of all TCH and SDCCH” information element contains a heap buffer overflow in the function FDD_csrr_decode_redirection_ie. The “Cell selection indicator after release of all TCH and SDCCH” is a type 4 information element with a minimum length of 4 octets.