PSIRT Advisory – INTEL-SA-01007

Summary:
A potential security vulnerability in the Secure Device Manager (SDM) firmware for Intel® Stratix® 10 and Intel® Agilex® 7 FPGA products may allow denial of service. Intel is releasing SDM firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:
CVEID: CVE-2023-41092

Description: Unchecked return value in SDM firmware for Intel® Stratix® 10 and Intel® Agilex® 7 FPGAs before version 23.3 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.6 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H

Affected products:
Intel® Agilex® 7 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs Firmware versions after 21.4
Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs Firmware versions after 21.2

Recommendations:
Intel recommends updating Intel® Agilex® 7 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs Firmware to version 23.3 or higher.
Intel recommends updating Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs Firmware to version 23.3 or higher.

Updates to generate firmware version 23.3 or higher is available for download at this location:

• https://www.altera.com/products/development-tools/quartus

Acknowledgements:
This issue was found internally by Intel. Intel would like to thank Deepanshu Tyagi.

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