Infotainment reboot via underflowed EXIF buffer size
Published Jun 28, 2025 · Updated Jun 30, 2025
Integer underflow in JOYNEXT MIB3 OI MQB 0304 and earlier allows physically proximate attackers to reboot the infotainment system via a JPEG. Its picserver EXIF parser subtracts two from an untrusted two-byte length without a lower-bound check, then uses the underflowed unsigned result as an allocation size. Exploitation requires a crafted JPEG on a USB drive and user interaction to open it; the resulting process abort causes a full IVI reboot and briefly interrupts multimedia and navigation.
Summary
What happened
Integer underflow in JOYNEXT MIB3 OI MQB 0304 and earlier allows physically proximate attackers to reboot the infotainment system via a JPEG. Its picserver EXIF parser subtracts two from an untrusted two-byte length without a lower-bound check, then uses the underflowed unsigned result as an allocation size. Exploitation requires a crafted JPEG on a USB drive and user interaction to open it; the resulting process abort causes a full IVI reboot and briefly interrupts multimedia and navigation.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-28902
- Published
- Jun 28, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 30, 2025
- Vendor
- JOYNEXT GmbH
- Product
- JOYNEXT MIB3 OI MQB
- Classifications
- CWE-191, CAPEC-92, T1204.002
- Attack vector
- physical
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jun 28, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 30, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Black Hat Europe MIB3 EXIF underflow demonstrationproof of concept · demonstrated
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