CVE-2009-2999

high

Description

The com.android.phone process in Android 1.5 CRBxx allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application restart and network disconnection) via an SMS message containing a malformed WAP Push message that triggers an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exception, possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-2656.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53655

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506948/100/0/threaded

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-014.html

http://securitytracker.com/id?1022986

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=46e23fe762d2143d60589ab6d39c4b47c2c754d1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-10-14

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0083