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Low ALSA-2024:9424 2 CVEs

Low: tpm2-tools security update

Published Nov 12, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The tpm2-tools packages add a set of utilities for management and utilization of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 devices from user space.

Security Fix(es):

* tpm2-tools: arbitrary quote data may go undetected by tpm2_checkquote (CVE-2024-29038)
* tpm2-tools: pcr selection value is not compared with the attest (CVE-2024-29039)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 tpm2-tools 5.2-4.el9

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.1

    Missing check in tpm2_checkquote allows attackers to misrepresent the TPM state

    tpm2 is the source repository for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM2.0) tools. This vulnerability allows attackers to manipulate tpm2_checkquote outputs by altering the TPML_PCR_SELECTION in the PCR input file. As a result, digest values are incorrectly mapped…

  • Medium 4.3

    tpm2 does not detect if quote was not generated by TPM

    tpm2-tools is the source repository for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM2.0) tools. A malicious attacker can generate arbitrary quote data which is not detected by `tpm2 checkquote`. This issue was patched in version 5.7.

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-29038
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-29039
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278071
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2278075
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-9424.html