CVE-2021-37109: Huawei Baseband MPU Security Protection Bypass via EDMA

Summary There is a vulnerability in the Huawei Kirin SoC’s DDR Controller (DMSS) Access Permission system which allows the baseband to bypass the Baseband’s MPU memory protections and circumvent RO and NX protections. The vulnerability was fixed in February 2022.
Vulnerability Details CVE-2021-22430 is a vulnerability in the Huawei Kirin SoC’s basebands which allowed to circumvent MPU restrictions. The vulnerability in CVE-2021-22430 was that MPU configuration was restored from a writable table for sleep cycles and therefore overwriting the cached …

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