Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Advisory

Summary:

Potential security vulnerabilities in Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition may allow escalation of privilege and/or denial of service.** **Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2019-14604

Description: Null pointer dereference in the FPGA kernel driver for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition before version 19.3 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.8 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2019-14603

Description: Improper permissions in the installer for the License Server software for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition before version 19.3 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.7 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro before version 19.3.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends that users of Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition update to 19.3 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/?edition=pro&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Nitin Pundir (CVE-2019-14604) and Marius Gabriel Mihai (CVE-2019-14603).

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.