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LIN1021-6731 : Security Advisory - u-boot - CVE-2023-39902

Created: Oct 17, 2023    Updated: Oct 18, 2023
Found In Version: 10.21.20.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Userspace

Description

A software vulnerability has been identified in the U-Boot Secondary Program Loader (SPL) before 2023.07 on select NXP i.MX 8M family processors. Under certain conditions, a crafted Flattened Image Tree (FIT) format structure can be used to overwrite SPL memory, allowing unauthenticated software to execute on the target, leading to privilege escalation. This affects i.MX 8M, i.MX 8M Mini, i.MX 8M Nano, and i.MX 8M Plus.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2023-39902 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-39902)
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