CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2021-39647 — Google Android security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 4.4

In mon_smc_load_sp of gs101-sc/plat/samsung/exynos/soc/exynos9845/smc_booting.S, there is a possible reinitialization of TEE due to improper locking. This could lead to local information disclosure with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android kernelAndroid ID: A-198713939References: N/A

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.4 (3.1)
Published
2021-12-15
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-667

Affected products

  • google / android

Matched remediation archetype

Race condition, TOCTOU, and lifecycle synchronization

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Check exposure

  • Map concurrent actors, shared state, lock boundaries, signals, callbacks, retries, and check-then-use sequences in the affected path.
  • Determine whether untrusted users can influence timing, object names, filesystem state, or repeated state transitions.
  • Identify clustered and multi-process behavior that repository-local tests may not represent.

Remediate safely

  • Make the sensitive state transition atomic or protect it with a consistently ordered synchronization primitive.
  • Perform authorization and invariant checks on the same authoritative object and transaction used for the operation.
  • Use unique private resources, safe ownership transfer, and idempotent operations; add deterministic concurrency regression tests.

Authoritative sources

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