CVE-2021-1906 on CISA KEV

Improper handling of address deregistration on failure can lead to new GPU address allocation failure. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Improper handling of address deregistration on failure can lead to new GPU address allocation failure. in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• www.qualcomm.com — https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins/may-2021-bulletin

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Qualcomm, Inc.	Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables	APQ8009, APQ8009W, APQ8017, APQ8053, APQ8064AU, APQ8096AU, AQT1000, AR8031, AR8035, AR8151, CSRA6620, CSRA6640, CSRB31024, FSM10055, FSM10056, MDM9150, MDM9206, MDM9250, MDM9607, MDM9626, MDM9628, MDM9650, MSM8909W, MSM8917, MSM8953, MSM8996AU, PM215, PM3003A, PM4125, PM4250, PM439, PM456, PM6125, PM6150, PM6150A, PM6150L, PM6250, PM6350, PM640A, PM640L, PM640P, PM660, PM660A, PM660L, PM670, PM670A, PM670L, PM7150A, PM7150L, PM7250, PM7250B, PM7350C, PM8004, PM8005, PM8008, PM8009, PM8150, PM8150A, PM8150B, PM8150C, PM8150L, PM8250, PM8350, PM8350B, PM8350BH, PM8350BHS, PM8350C, PM855, PM855A, PM855B, PM855L, PM855P, PM8909, PM8916, PM8937, PM8953, PM8998, PMC1000H, PMD9607, PMD9655, PMD9655AU, PME605, PMI632, PMI8937, PMI8952, PMI8998, PMK7350, PMK8002, PMK8003, PMK8350, PMM6155AU, PMM8155AU, PMM8195AU, PMM855AU, PMM8996AU, PMR525, PMR735A, PMR735B, PMX20, PMX24, PMX50, PMX55, QAT3514, QAT3516, QAT3518, QAT3519, QAT3522, QAT3550, QAT3555, QAT5515, QAT5516, QAT5522, QAT5533, QAT5568, QBT1000, ...[truncated*]

06Detection

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