We have identified a new heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Samsung’s Android Radio Interface Layer implementation. The vulnerability can be exploited by a malicious (compromised) baseband runtime to achieve arbitrary code execution in Android in the radio context. The vulnerability we are disclosing in this advisory affected a wide range of Samsung devices, including phones on the newest Exynos chipsets. The July 2023 issue of the Samsung Mobile Security Bulletin contains this vulnerability as CVE-2023-30649. Vulnerability Details The Exynos vendor RIL implementation, provided by the libsec-ril.so library, exposes an Inter Process Call (IPC) interface to the baseband processor. The baseband processor can use this API through dedicated IPC messages.

We have identified a new Toc-ToU race condition vulnerability in Huawei’s recovery image implementation of SD-card based firmware updates. The vulnerability can be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution in recovery mode, enabling unauthentic firmware updates, firmware downgrades to a known vulnerable version or other system modifications. The vulnerability we are disclosing in this advisory affected a wide range of Huawei devices, including phones on the newest chipsets (Kirin 9000). The November 2022 issue of HarmonyOS and EMUI Security Bulletins contains this vulnerability as CVE-2022-44563. Vulnerability Details The implementation of the “SD-update” mode of the Huawei recovery process, which is a proprietary mode for handling update files located on external media, contains the vulnerability that the update file gets reread between different verification phases.

In this advisory we are disclosing a vulnerability in the Huawei log device that allows any unprivileged process to learn the value of randomized kernel pointers. The vulnerability can be used to defeat KASLR mitigation. Huawei kernels are shipped with custom log devices (/dev/hwlog_dubai, /dev/hwlog_exception and /dev/hwlog_jank) that facilitate better system diagnostics through a series of ioctl calls. One of these diagnostics module is referred to as memcheck, and it provides detailed statistics about the system memory usage. These statistics can disclose randomized kernel pointers to an attacker, enabling them to defeat the KASLR security mitigation. Due to an access control configuration error, these ioctls are exposed to untrusted and isolated application contexts, as a result any unprivileged process can exploit this vulnerability.

In this advisory we are disclosing a vulnerability in the Huawei log device that allows any unprivileged process to disclose sensitive information from the kernel. Huawei kernels are shipped with custom log devices (/dev/hwlog_dubai, /dev/hwlog_exception and /dev/hwlog_jank) that facilitate better system diagnostics through a series of ioctl calls. One of these diagnostics module is referred to as zrhung, and it provides information and configuration options to monitor hung processes. The implementation of the config set ioctl contains a race condition vulnerability that allows an attacker to free the underlying buffer that holds the configuration data. Consecutive config get ioctl calls use the dangling pointers to read and disclose, potentially sensitive, dynamically allocated kernel data.

In this advisory we are disclosing a memory corruption vulnerability in the Huawei log device that allows any unprivileged process to trigger a kernel crash and reboot the device. Huawei kernels are shipped with custom log devices (/dev/hwlog_dubai, /dev/hwlog_exception and /dev/hwlog_jank) that facilitate better system diagnostics through a series of ioctl calls. One of these diagnostics module is referred to as memcheck, and it provides detailed statistics about the system memory usage, including the allocations made by the SLAB kernel allocator. The implementation of this SLAB tracer contains a series of race condition vulnerabilities that could lead to kernel memory corruption and kernel deadlocks.

Summary Last year we published research at Black Hat in which we disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in Huawei Kirin SoC’s DDR Controller (DMSS) Access Permission system which allowed some SoC cores or DMA-capable peripherals to directly access secure world memory and completely compromise the entire memory of the SoC. This advisory focuses on a new access permission vulnerability in the same DMSS. The vulnerability can be used to entirely compromise the Trusted Execution Environment from the Baseband. The vulnerability was fixed in February 2022. Vulnerability Details The peripheral DMA lives up to its name, as it is mainly used to interact between multiple communication peripherals (e.

Summary There is a vulnerability in the Huawei Kirin SoC’s DDR Controller (DMSS) Access Permission system which allows the baseband to bypass the Baseband’s MPU memory protections and circumvent RO and NX protections. The vulnerability was fixed in February 2022. Vulnerability Details CVE-2021-22430 is a vulnerability in the Huawei Kirin SoC’s basebands which allowed to circumvent MPU restrictions. The vulnerability in CVE-2021-22430 was that MPU configuration was restored from a writable table for sleep cycles and therefore overwriting the cached entries resulted in new settings taking effect. This worked because the implementation normally only wrote the table once (not every time the core went to sleep) but restored the MPU configuration from it every time it was woken up.

Summary Last year we published research at Black Hat in which we disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in Huawei Kirin SoC’s DDR Controller (DMSS) Access Permission system which allowed some SoC cores or DMA-capable peripherals to directly access secure world memory and completely compromise the entire memory of the SoC. This advisory focuses on a new access permission vulnerability in the same DMSS. The vulnerability can be used to entirely compromise the SoC platform runtime (including all cores running in Secure World) directly from the Baseband. The vulnerability was fixed in February 2022. Vulnerability Details This vulnerability is very similar to CVE-2021-39991 (“Huawei DMSS Memory Access Management Configuration Unathorized Rewrite Via Peripheral DMA”).

Summary Last year we published research at Black Hat in which we disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in Huawei Kirin SoC’s DDR Controller (DMSS) Access Permission system which allowed some SoC cores or DMA-capable peripherals to directly access secure world memory and completely compromise the entire memory of the SoC. This advisory focuses on a new access permission vulnerability in the same DMSS. The vulnerability can be used to entirely compromise the SoC platform runtime (including all cores running in Secure World) directly from the Baseband. The vulnerability was fixed in February 2022. Vulnerability Details We have identified two related vulnerabilities related to the LPMSS subsystem of Huawei Kirin SoCs.

Summary Last year we published research at Black Hat in which we disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in Huawei Kirin SoC’s DDR Controller (DMSS) Access Permission system which allowed some SoC cores or DMA-capable peripherals to directly access secure world memory and completely compromise the entire memory of the SoC. This advisory focuses on a new access permission vulnerability in the same DMSS. The vulnerability can be used to entirely compromise the SoC platform runtime (including all cores running in Secure World) directly from the Baseband. The vulnerability was fixed in February 2022. Vulnerability Details This vulnerability is very similar to CVE-2021-37107 (“Huawei Peripheral DMA Memory Access Permission Bypass”).