Denial of service in Intel DSA and Intel IAA

1) Deserialization of Untrusted Data

EUVDB-ID: #VU89676

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 4.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21823

CWE-ID: CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure deserialization in hardware logic. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors: All versions

4th Generation Intel Xeon Platinum processors: All versions

4th Generation Intel Xeon Silver Processors: All versions

4th Generation Intel Xeon Bronze Processors: All versions

4th Generation Intel Xeon Gold Processors: All versions

Intel Xeon W Processors: All versions

5th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors: All versions

MPI Library: before 2024.0

Intel Driver and Support Assistant (DSA): before 24.9

DSA Transparent Offload Library (DTO): before 1.1

OFI Libfabric Shared Memory Provider: before 1.21.1

Data Mover Library (DML): before 1.2.0

Query Processing Library (QPL): before 1.6.0

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:h:intel:4th_generation_intel_xeon_scalable_processors:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:h:intel:4th_generation_intel_xeon_platinum_processors:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:h:intel:4th_generation_intel_xeon_silver_processors:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:h:intel:4th_generation_intel_xeon_bronze_processors:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:h:intel:4th_generation_intel_xeon_gold_processors:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:h:intel:intel_xeon_w_processors:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:h:intel:5th_generation_intel_xeon_scalable_processors:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:intel:mpi_library:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:h:intel:intel_dsa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:intel:dsa_transparent_offload_library_dto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:intel:ofi_libfabric_shared_memory_provider:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:intel:data_mover_library_dml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:intel:query_processing_library_qpl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01084.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.