A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro and Standard edition software for linux may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.
CVEID: CVE-2023-24016
Description: Uncontrolled search path element in some Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro and Standard edition software for linux 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
Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro edition software for Linux before version 22.4.
Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard edition software for Linux before version 22.1STD.
Intel recommends updating the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro edition software for Linux to version 22.4 or later.
Intel recommends updating the Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard edition software for Linux to version 22.1STD or later.
Updates are available for download at these locations:
<http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/?edition=pro>
<http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/?edition=standard>
Intel would like to thank houjingyi for reporting this issue.
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.