CVE-2023-43632

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-43632
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-43632.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-43632
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Published
2023-09-21T14:15:11.157Z
Modified
2026-03-23T05:11:20.970269Z
Severity
  • 9.9 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

As noted in the “VTPM.md” file in the eve documentation, “VTPM is a server listening on port 8877 in EVE, exposing limited functionality of the TPM to the clients. VTPM allows clients to execute tpm2-tools binaries from a list of hardcoded options” The communication with this server is done using protobuf, and the data is comprised of 2 parts:

  1. Header

  2. Data

When a connection is made, the server is waiting for 4 bytes of data, which will be the header, and these 4 bytes would be parsed as uint32 size of the actual data to come.

Then, in the function “handleRequest” this size is then used in order to allocate a payload on the stack for the incoming data.

As this payload is allocated on the stack, this will allow overflowing the stack size allocated for the relevant process with freely controlled data.

  • An attacker can crash the system.
  • An attacker can gain control over the system, specifically on the “vtpm_server” process which has very high privileges.
References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.0.0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "9.5.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-43632.json"