vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-16837): tboot vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 16, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Oct 30, 2025

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

ubuntu-upgrade-tboot
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