Siemens InsydeH2O Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CVE-2021-33625)

An issue was discovered in Kernel 5.x in Insyde InsydeH2O, affecting HddPassword. Software SMI services that use the Communicate function of the EFISMMCOMMUNICATIONPROTOCOL do not check whether the address of the buffer is valid, which allows use of SMRAM, MMIO, or OS kernel addresses. Insyde BIO...

CVE-2021-33625

Mode C: Normal (concrete details present) Vulnerability: InsydeH2O firmware (Kernel 5.x) used by HddPassword suffers an SMM/SMI buffer validation flaw. Software SMI services that use the EFI_SMM_COMMUNICATION_PROTOCOL’s Communicate() do not verify the buffer address, enabling access to SMRAM, MMI...