Bug 1694077 (CVE-2018-12183) - CVE-2018-12183 edk2: stack overflow in DxeCore leads to privilege escalation
Summary: CVE-2018-12183 edk2: stack overflow in DxeCore leads to privilege escalation
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-12183
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1694086 1694085
Blocks: 1694083
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Reported: 2019-03-29 13:01 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:52:38 UTC
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TianoCore 1137 0 None None None 2019-08-01 19:41:44 UTC

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-03-29 13:01:51 UTC
Stack overflow in DxeCore for EDK II may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.

Reference:
https://edk2-docs.gitbooks.io/security-advisory/content/unlimited-fv-recursion.html

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/0a0d5296e448fc350de1594c49b9c0deff7fad60

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-03-29 13:02:17 UTC
External References:

https://edk2-docs.gitbooks.io/security-advisory/content/unlimited-fv-recursion.html

Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-03-29 13:35:17 UTC
Created edk2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1694085]

Comment 3 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-03-29 13:36:09 UTC
Created edk2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1694086]

Comment 4 Laszlo Ersek 2019-04-01 16:36:04 UTC
(In reply to Dhananjay Arunesh from comment #1)
> External References:
> 
> https://edk2-docs.gitbooks.io/security-advisory/content/unlimited-fv-
> recursion.html

This advisory references upstream bugs #1126 and #1137.

- TianoCore#1126 is open to the public, and it identifies the commit hash (0a0d5296e4) at which the related series was completed. I don't see how that work is related to DxeCore stack overflow. The advisory names the same commit as well. IMO both of these may have been in error, in the advisory (i.e. both the commit hash and the BZ reference); although I could be proved wrong, obviously.

- In comparison, TianoCore#1137 has not been opened up to the public. I guess that BZ tracks the actual security bug. Can you please work with the TianoCore Bugzilla InfoSec group to open up TianoCore#1137? Thanks.


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