CVE-2023-41325CWE-415

OP-TEE double free in shdr_verify_signature

High · published September 15, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
31.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OP-TEE is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) designed as companion to a non-secure Linux kernel running on Arm; Cortex-A cores using the TrustZone technology. Starting in version 3.20 and prior to version 3.22, `shdr_verify_signature` can make a double free. `shdr_verify_signature` used to verify a TA binary before it is loaded. To verify a signature of it, allocate a memory for RSA key. RSA key allocate function (`sw_crypto_acipher_alloc_rsa_public_key`) will try to allocate a memory (which is optee’s heap memory). RSA key is consist of exponent and modulus (represent as variable `e`, `n`) and it allocation is not atomic way, so it may succeed in `e` but fail in `n`. In this case sw_crypto_acipher_alloc_rsa_public_key` will free on `e` and return as it is failed but variable ‘e’ is remained as already freed memory address . `shdr_verify_signature` will free again that memory (which is `e`) even it is freed when it failed allocate RSA key. A patch is available in version 3.22. No known workarounds are available.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00389 · 31.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-415 · Double Free
Published
2023-09-15T19:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 19:40Z
    OP-TEE double free in shdr_verify_signature
    cvelistv5