CVE-2023-41325

HIGH

OP-TEE 3.20.0-3.21.9 - Double Free in RSA Key Allocation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 28.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-415
Status published
Products (4)
linaro/op-tee 3.22.0 rc1
linaro/op-tee 3.20.0 - 3.22.0
trustedfirmware/op-tee 3.22.0 rc1
trustedfirmware/op-tee 3.20.0 - 3.22.0
Published Sep 15, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026