CVE-2023-49100 Affecting arm-trusted-firmware package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-ARMTRUSTEDFIRMWARE-6262071
  • published5 Mar 2024
  • disclosed21 Feb 2024

Introduced: 21 Feb 2024

CVE-2023-49100  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:20.04 arm-trusted-firmware.

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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 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.