> MSV-4621: Mediatek Baseband Empty Multipart SMS Leading to Denial of Service
[DATE: 01/10/2025 00:00]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
An attacker sending a malformed SIP message over VoLTE to a device with a Mediatek baseband can trigger the vulnerability described here.
The impact is DoS in the baseband, triggered by malformed VoLTE message such as SIP INVITE or MESSAGE request.
The vulnerability described in this advisory affected a wide range of Mediatek devices. This vulnerability is assigned CVE-2025-20725.
Vulnerability Details Crash happens due to a trap, described below.
The inet_msg_unpack_body function has a vulnerability which makes the SIP parsing susceptible for DoS attacks. The relevant code path can be reached with syntaxically correct SIP messages with multipart content type. (see the PoC section for an actual example)