CVE-2019-20770 — An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 9

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 9.0 software. The HAL service has a buffer overflow that leads to arbitrary code execution. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-190013 (September 2019).

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 9.0 software. The HAL service has a buffer overflow that leads to arbitrary code execution. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-190013 (September 2019).

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-04-17T13:33:43.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T02:53:09.021Z

09References

• lgsecurity.lge.com — https://lgsecurity.lge.com/