Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
CVE-2020-11230
Summary
Potential arbitrary memory corruption when the qseecom driver updates ion physical addresses in the buffer as it exposes a physical address to user land in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile
- HIGH
- LOCAL
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- HIGH
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
The software checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the software to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published