Vulnerability · Published Feb 19, 2024 · Assigned by ASRG

CVE-2024-1633FIP Header Integer Overflow

Low 2.0

In plain English

A low-severity integer overflow in rcar_gen3_v2.5 from Renesas. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 4% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)2.0Low
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 96.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

During the secure boot, bl2 (the second stage of the bootloader) loops over images defined in the table “bl2_mem_params_descs”. For each image, the bl2 reads the image length and destination from the image’s certificate. Because of the way of reading from the image, which base on 32-bit unsigned integer value, it can result to an integer overflow. An attacker can bypass memory range restriction and write data out of buffer bounds, which could result in bypass of secure boot. Affected git version from c2f286820471ed276c57e603762bd831873e5a17 until (not 

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Renesas rcar_gen3_v2.5 v2.5

Weakness: CWE-190 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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