Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Trusted Boot (tboot) Allows Overwriting of Dynamic PCRs

Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Trusted Boot (tboot) Allows Overwriting of Dynamic PCRs

CVE-2017-16837 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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