CVE-2023-49100 Affecting arm-trusted-firmware package, versions <2.10.0+dfsg-1
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- published23 Feb 2024
- disclosed21 Feb 2024
Introduced: 21 Feb 2024
CVE-2023-49100 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:13 arm-trusted-firmware to version 2.10.0+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream arm-trusted-firmware package and not the arm-trusted-firmware package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.
Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) before 2.10 has a potential read out-of-bounds in the SDEI service. The input parameter passed in register x1 is not validated well enough in the function sdei_interrupt_bind. The parameter is passed to a call to plat_ic_get_interrupt_type. It can be any arbitrary value passing checks in the function plat_ic_is_sgi. A compromised Normal World (Linux kernel) can enable a root-privileged attacker to issue arbitrary SMC calls. Using this primitive, he can control the content of registers x0 through x6, which are used to send parameters to TF-A. Out-of-bounds addresses can be read in the context of TF-A (EL3). Because the read value is never returned to non-secure memory or in registers, no leak is possible. An attacker can still crash TF-A, however.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-49100
- https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/blob/a05414bedc9b1cc35cf0795ce641b6b4db5bc97e/services/std_svc/sdei/sdei_main.c#L708
- https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/blob/a05414bedc9b1cc35cf0795ce641b6b4db5bc97e/services/std_svc/sdei/sdei_main.c#L714
- https://trustedfirmware-a.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security_advisories/security-advisory-tfv-11.html