CVE-2017-16837

Certain function pointers in Trusted Boot (tboot) through 1.9.6 are not validated and can cause arbitrary code execution, which allows local users to overwrite dynamic PCRs of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) by hooking these function pointers.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-11-16

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Trusted Boot (Trusted Boot Project)

References

• https://sourceforge.net/p/tboot/code/ci/521c58e51eb5be105a29983742850e72c44ed80e/
• https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/han