PT-2014-2599 · Qualcomm Innovation Center · Little Kernel (Lk) Bootloader

Published 2014-08-31 · Updated 2014-09-02 · CVE-2013-2598

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Little Kernel (LK) bootloader (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows attackers to overwrite signature-verification code by crafting boot-image load-destination header values that specify memory locations within bootloader memory. This is related to the app/aboot/aboot.c component in the Little Kernel (LK) bootloader, as distributed with Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-2598

Affected Products

Little Kernel (Lk) Bootloader

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2598 · Security Note
• https://codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/loading-image-data-memory-locations-based-untrusted-header-data-lk-bootloader-cve-2013-2598 · Vendor Advisory