Stack Overflow Bug in ofono Leads to SMS Decoding Vulnerability
CVE-2023-4232

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Key Information:

Vendor

Fedora

Status
Ofono
Fedora
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 April 2024

What is CVE-2023-4232?

A flaw was found in ofono, an Open Source Telephony on Linux. A stack overflow bug is triggered within the decode_status_report() function during the SMS decoding. It is assumed that the attack scenario is accessible from a compromised modem, a malicious base station, or just SMS. There is a bound check for this memcpy length in decode_submit(), but it was forgotten in decode_status_report().

Affected Version(s)

ofono 2.1

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255394
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Red Hat would like to thank Mitch Zakocs (Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative) for reporting this issue.
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