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CVE-2021-44733 - Fuzzing and exploitation of a use-after-free in the Linux TEE

Recently a use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel TEE subsystem, up to and including version 5.15.11, and was assigned CVE-2021-44733.

At a first glance it did not seem to be exploitable for several reasons, however after some further analysis of the vulnerable code path and by implementing a crude proof-of-concept exploit it was possible to overwrite a function pointer in the kernel. No privilege escalation payload is presented in this post, however the entire environment for running OPTEE and the exploit is available for further testing, see ‘Setting up the environment’. CVE-2021-44733 - Fuzzing and exploitation of a use-after-free in the Linux kernel TEE subsystem

December 30, 2021
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