Oops! Microsoft Accidentally Leaks Backdoor Keys to Bypass UEFI Secure Boot

It's True — There is no such backdoor that only its creator can access. Microsoft has accidentally leaked the Secret keys that allow hackers to unlock devices protected by UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Secure Boot feature. What's even worse? It will be impossible for Microsoft to und...

CVE-2015-7837

The Linux kernel, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, kernel-rt, and Enterprise MRG 2 and when booted with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, allows local users to bypass intended securelevel/secureboot restrictions by leveraging improper handling of secureboot flag across kexec reboot...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20150805)

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's netfilter connection tracking implementation loaded extensions. An attacker on a local network could potentially send a sequence of specially crafted packets that would initiate the loading of a large number of extensions, causing t...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which...

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...

MS KB2962824: Update Rollup of Revoked Non-Compliant UEFI Modules

The remote host is missing Microsoft KB2962824, an update that revokes the digital signatures of four third-party Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI modules. This update prevents the modules from being loaded on systems where UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Fedora 18 : kernel-3.6.5-2.fc18 (2012-17413)

Linux v3.6.5, latest upstream stable release with fixes across the tree. Fixes CVE-2012-4565 and CVE-2012-4508. Updates kernel module signing to match the upstream kernel, and updates the UEFI secure boot patch set. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...