Design/Logic Flaw

Lenovo ThinkServer RD350, RD450, RD550, RD650, and TD350 servers before 1.26.0 use weak encryption to store 1 user and 2 administrator BIOS passwords, which allows attackers to decrypt the passwords via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2015-3322

Lenovo ThinkServer RD350/RD450/RD550/RD650/TD350—before BIOS firmware 1.26.0, BIOS passwords (user and admin) are stored with a legacy, weak encryption. This could allow an attacker to decrypt passwords via unspecified vectors. Affected models require upgrading to BIOS firmware version 1.26.0 (or...

CVE-2015-3322

Lenovo ThinkServer RD350, RD450, RD550, RD650, and TD350 servers before 1.26.0 use weak encryption to store 1 user and 2 administrator BIOS passwords, which allows attackers to decrypt the passwords via unspecified vectors...

Enhanced Protection of UEFI Variables

Summary: New BIOS updates are available for Intel products, enhancing the hardening of certain UEFI variables against potential modification. Intel highly recommends that users install the updates to mitigate this exposure. Description: Intel has become aware that certain firmware implementations...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, a...

Multiple Product SMM Local Code Execution Vulnerabilities

System Management Mode SMM is the highest privilege execution mode on x86 processors. Multiple BIOS implementations allow the SMM function to call memory locations other than SMRAM. An attacker with access to physical memory first corrupts the function pointer or function called by SMM, then writ...

BIOS implementations permit unsafe SMM function calls to memory locations outside of SMRAM

Overview Multiple BIOS implementations permit unsafe System Management Mode SMM function calls to memory locations outside of SMRAM. Description Multiple BIOS implementations permit unsafe System Management Mode SMM function calls to memory locations outside of SMRAM. According to Corey Kallenber...

BIOS Rootkit Implant Debuts at CanSecWest

When the National Security Agency’s ANT division catalog of surveillance tools was disclosed among the myriad of Snowden revelations, its desire to implant malware into the BIOS of targeted machines was unquestionable. While there’s little evidence of BIOS bootkits in the wild, the ANT catalog an...

Intel UEFI EFI S3 Resume Boot Path Script Privilege Escalation (INTEL-SA-00041)

The version of the Intel UEFI BIOS on the remote host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability due to an error, related to handling the EFI S3 Resume Boot Path boot script, that allows bypassing firmware write protections. An attacker can exploit this to perform a reflash of the...

Intel Chipsets Local Competition Condition Security Bypass Vulnerability

Intel is the world's largest manufacturer of personal computer parts and CPUs. A competitive condition vulnerability exists in Intel chipsets that rely solely on the BIOSCNTL.BIOSWE and BIOSCNTL.BLE bits as the BIOS write lockout mechanism, allowing a local attacker to exploit the vulnerability t...

BIOS Security Updates for Multiple Issues

Summary: New BIOS updates are available for Intel products. These updates harden the implementation against malicious inputs at various stages of the boot process and runtime. Description: This update addresses issues identified in the process of resuming from a sleep state, processing data store...

DHS Warns of UEFI Hardware Vulnerabilities

The CERT/CC at Carnegie Mellon University today released three advisories warning of vulnerabilities that affect some unified extensible firmware interface UEFI systems and the BIOS of some Intel chipsets. Hardware and firmware vulnerabilities, such as these reported by Corey Kallenberg of MITRE...

Intel BIOS locking mechanism contains race condition that enables write protection bypass

Overview A race condition exists in Intel chipsets that rely solely on the BIOSCNTL.BIOSWE and BIOSCNTL.BLE bits as a BIOS write locking mechanism. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in a bypass of this locking mechanism. Description CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Share...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: grub2-2.00-27.fc19

The GRand Unified Bootloader GRUB is a highly configurable and customizab le bootloader with modular architecture. It support rich varietyof kernel for mats, file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices. This subpackage provides support for PC BIOS systems...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: grub2-2.00-27.fc20

The GRand Unified Bootloader GRUB is a highly configurable and customizab le bootloader with modular architecture. It support rich varietyof kernel for mats, file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices. This subpackage provides support for PC BIOS systems...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: grub2-2.02-0.13.fc21

The GRand Unified Bootloader GRUB is a highly configurable and customizab le bootloader with modular architecture. It support rich varietyof kernel for mats, file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices. This subpackage provides support for PC BIOS systems...

New BlackEnergy Crimeware Enhanced to Target Linux Systems and Cisco Routers

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have unearthed new capabilities in the BlackEnergy Crimeware weapon that has now ability to hacking routers, Linux systems and Windows, targeting industry through Cisco network devices. The antivirus vendor’s Global Research & Analysis Team released a report...

dos_ssh - Use BIOS ram hacks to make a SSH server

Use BIOS ram hacks to make a SSH server out of any INT 10 13h app MS-DOS is one of those You can find a demo Youtube Video here below: Download dosssh...

Millions of PCs Affected by Mysterious Computrace Backdoor

UPDATE: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Anibal Sacco works for Core Security. Sacco left Core Security last year to start Cubica Labs. LAS VEGAS – Nearly every PC has an anti-theft product called Computrace embedded in its BIOS PCI Optional ROM or its unified extensible...

[security bulletin] HPSBHF03084 rev.1 HP PCs with UEFI Firmware, Execution of Arbitrary Code

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