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MSV-4629: Mediatek Baseband Malformed Audio Attribute for RTP/AVP Leads to Denial of Service

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 NULL access. The crash happens in sdp_msg_create_negotiation_sdp. It is caused by a malformed audio attribute for RTP/AVP resulting in a NULL pointer access, which crashes the modem. Example payload The following SIP messages were tested:

Reference details

Source category
research-report
First reported
Oct 01, 2025 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Oct 01, 2025 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 13, 2026 08:35 UTC
Record ID
c9278534c77da2ccf736b9af477ac109ca2914aef310c17ec869b01f76a2fc29

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Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Oct 01, 2025 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 13, 2026 08:35 UTC

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