CVE-2023-43515

Summary

CVE-2023-43515 is a newly discovered memory corruption vulnerability affecting the HLOS (Hardware Abstraction Layer for Linux on ARM) component of tmecom when running kernel address sanitizers with DEBUG_FS enabled. The issue occurs during the sanitization process and can potentially allow an attacker to write arbitrary data into kernel memory, leading to unintended behavior or system crashes. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in privilege escalation or denial of service attacks, posing a significant risk to affected systems. It is recommended that users update their tmecom components as soon as possible to mitigate this threat.

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