CVE-2013-2598

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

app/aboot/aboot.c in the Little Kernel (LK) bootloader, as distributed with Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to overwrite signature-verification code via crafted boot-image load-destination header values that specify memory locations within bootloader memory.

Affected products

Codeaurora Android-Msm: 2.6.29, 3.2.54, 3.2.55, 3.2.56, 3.2.57, 3.2.58 (+166)

References

https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/loading-image-data-memory-locations-based-untrusted-header-data-lk-bootloader-cve-2013-2598
https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/loading-image-data-memory-locations-based-untrusted-header-data-lk-bootloader-cve-2013-2598

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