7.8
HIGH
CVE-2020-24658
Arm Compiler Stack Protection Guard Value Overwrite Vulnerability
Description

Arm Compiler 5 through 5.06u6 has an error in a stack protection feature designed to help spot stack-based buffer overflows in local arrays. When this feature is enabled, a protected function writes a guard value to the stack prior to (above) any vulnerable arrays in the stack. The guard value is checked for corruption on function return; corruption leads to an error-handler call. In certain circumstances, the reference value that is compared against the guard value is itself also written to the stack (after any vulnerable arrays). The reference value is written to the stack when the function runs out of registers to use for other temporary data. If both the reference value and the guard value are written to the stack, then the stack protection will fail to spot corruption when both values are overwritten with the same value. For both the reference value and the guard value to be corrupted, there would need to be both a buffer overflow and a buffer underflow in the vulnerable arrays (or some other vulnerability that causes two separated stack entries to be corrupted).

INFO

Published Date :

Dec. 24, 2020, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

July 21, 2021, 11:39 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

1.8
Affected Products

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ID Vendor Product Action
1 Arm arm_compiler
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/arm-compiler-5-stack-protection Vendor Advisory

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Jul. 21, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-787 CWE-770 CWE-787
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 31, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/arm-compiler-5-stack-protection No Types Assigned https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/arm-compiler-5-stack-protection Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-787
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:arm:arm_compiler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 5.01 up to (excluding) 5.06 *cpe:2.3:a:arm:arm_compiler:5.06:-:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:arm:arm_compiler:5.06:update1:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:arm:arm_compiler:5.06:update2:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:arm:arm_compiler:5.06:update3:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:arm:arm_compiler:5.06:update4:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:arm:arm_compiler:5.06:update5:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:arm:arm_compiler:5.06:update6:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:arm:arm_compiler:5.06:update7:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.05 }} 0.00%

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0.18936

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