UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16837

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16837

    Published: 16 Nov 2017Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-16837

    Summary:

    Details: Certain function pointers in Trusted Boot (tboot) through 1.9.6 are not validated and can cause arbitrary code execution, which allows local users to overwrite dynamic PCRs of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) by hooking these function pointers.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16837, https://sourceforge.net/p/tboot/code/ci/521c58e51eb5be105a29983742850e72c44ed80e/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16837

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: tboot

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.8.3-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High