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Update History.txt as per PR feedback
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Changes between FreeRTOS V10.4.3 LTS Patch 2 and FreeRTOS V10.4.3 LTS Patch 3 released September 16 2022
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+ ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M MPU ports: It is possible for a third party that
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+ ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M MPU ports: It was possible for a third party that
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already independently gained the ability to execute injected code to
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read from or write to arbitrary addresses by passing a negative argument
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as the xIndex parameter to pvTaskGetThreadLocalStoragePointer() or
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vTaskSetThreadLocalStoragePointer respectively.
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vTaskSetThreadLocalStoragePointer respectively. A check has been added to
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ensure that passing a negative argument as the xIndex parameter does not
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cause arbitrary read or write.
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We thank Certibit Consulting, LLC for reporting this issue.
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+ ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M MPU ports: It is possible for an unprivileged task to
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invoke any function with privilege by passing it as a parameter to
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+ ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M MPU ports: It was possible for an unprivileged task
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to invoke any function with privilege by passing it as a parameter to
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MPU_xTaskCreate, MPU_xTaskCreateStatic, MPU_xTimerCreate,
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MPU_xTimerCreateStatic, or MPU_xTimerPendFunctionCall.
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We thank Huazhong University of Science and Technology for reporting this issue.
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+ ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M MPU ports: It is possible for a third party that has
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MPU_xTimerCreateStatic, or MPU_xTimerPendFunctionCall. MPU_xTaskCreate
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and MPU_xTaskCreateStatic have been updated to only allow creation of
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unprivileged tasks. MPU_xTimerCreate, MPU_xTimerCreateStatic and
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MPU_xTimerPendFunctionCall APIs have been removed.
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We thank Huazhong University of Science and Technology for reporting
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this issue.
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+ ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M MPU ports: It was possible for a third party that
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already independently gained the ability to execute injected code to
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achieve further privilege escalation by branching directly inside a
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FreeRTOS MPU API wrapper function with a manually crafted stack frame.
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The local stack variable `xRunningPrivileged` has been removed so that
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a manually crafted stack frame cannot be used for privilege escalation
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by branching directly inside a FreeRTOS MPU API wrapper.
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We thank Certibit Consulting, LLC, Huazhong University of Science and
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Technology and the SecLab team at Northeastern University for reporting
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this issue.
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+ ARMv7-M MPU ports: It is possible to configure overlapping memory
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protection unit (MPU) regions such that an unprivileged task can access
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privileged data.
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We thank the SecLab team at Northeastern University for reporting this issue.
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+ ARMv7-M MPU ports: It was possible to configure overlapping memory
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protection unit (MPU) regions such that an unprivileged task could access
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privileged data. The kernel now uses highest numbered MPU regions for
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kernel protections to prevent such MPU configurations.
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We thank the SecLab team at Northeastern University for reporting this
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issue.
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Changes between FreeRTOS V10.4.3 LTS Patch 1 and FreeRTOS V10.4.3 LTS Patch 2 released November 12 2021
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