CVE-2020-10702

qemu: weak signature generation in Pointer Authentication support for ARM

Published Jun 4, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
A flaw was found in QEMU in the implementation of the Pointer Authentication (PAuth) support for ARM introduced in version 4.0 and fixed in version 5.0.0. A general failure of the signature generation process caused every PAuth-enforced pointer to be signed with the same signature. A local attacker could obtain the signature of a protected pointer and abuse this flaw to bypass PAuth protection for all programs running on QEMU.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-3133 A flaw was found in QEMU in the implementation of the Pointer Authentication (PAuth) support for ARM introduced in version 4.0 and fixed in version 5.0.0. A general failure of the signature generation process caused every PAuth-enforced pointer to be signed with the same signature. A local attacker could obtain the signature of a protected pointer and abuse this flaw to bypass PAuth protection for all programs running on QEMU.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4372-1 QEMU vulnerabilities
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 11:06 AM
Reserved
Mar 20, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 4, 2020, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:48 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Apr 2, 2020, 12:00 AM