PSIRT Advisory – INTEL-SA-01050

Summary:
A potential security vulnerabilities in some Intel® Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) products may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

The Potential Vulnerability is in the ARM Trusted Firmware that runs in the HPS.

Vulnerability Details:
CVEID: CVE-2023-49614

Description: Out of bounds write in ARM Trusted Firmware for some Intel® FPGA products before version 2.9.0 may allow escalation of privilege and information disclosure.

CVSS Base Score: 5.7 Medium

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

CVEID: CVE-2024-22390

Description: Improper input validation in ARM Trusted Firmware for some Intel® FPGA products before version 2.9.1 may allow denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 4.4 Medium

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

Affected products:
Intel® Agilex™ 7 FPGA and SoC FPGA product families.
Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA product families.

Recommendations:
Intel recommends updating the affected Intel® FPGA product families above to the ARM Trusted Firmware version 2.9.0 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

• https://github.com/altera-opensource/arm-trusted-firmware/commits/socfpga_v2.9.0https://github.com/altera-opensource/arm-trusted-firmware/commits/socfpga_v2.9.0

Acknowledgements:
Intel would like to thank Christian Lindenmeier and Marcel Busch for reporting these issues.

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