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SUSE: CVE-2017-16837: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-16837: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/15/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/24/2017
Modified
06/20/2021

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-tboot

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:3090-1
  • CVE-2017-16837

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