CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0973
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
The image_verify function in platform/msm_shared/image_verify.c in the Little Kernel (LK) bootloader, as distributed with Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not check whether a certain digest size is consistent with the RSA_public_decrypt API specification, which makes it easier for attackers to bypass boot-image authentication requirements via trailing data.
Affected configurations
• little kernel project little kernel bootloader
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html source.android.com
- https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/incomplete-signature-parsing-during-boot-image-authentication-leads-to-signature-forgery-cve-2014-0973 Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html source.android.com
- https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/incomplete-signature-parsing-during-boot-image-authentication-leads-to-signature-forgery-cve-2014-0973 Patch