Dell, HP Memory-Access Bugs Open Attacker Path to Kernel Privileges

Vulnerabilities in Dell and HP laptops could allow an attacker to access information and gain kernel privileges via the devices’ Direct Memory Access DMA capability. DMA is a processing-efficiency approach for peripherals such as PCI cards or network interface cards that, as the name suggests,...

HPSBHF03647 rev. 2 - HP Open-Chassis Pre-boot Direct Memory Access (DMA) Vulnerability

Potential Security Impact Arbitrary Code Execution, Denial of Service, Information Disclosure. Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT. Reported by: Mickey Shkatov from Eclypsium, and Zoltan Harmath from Microsoft. VULNERABILITY SUMMARY A potential security vulnerability with pre-boot...

Reverse Imaging with UEFI targets fail with error : "failed to write disk" while doing the reverse image from vdisk to volume

Description : Unable to create a new vDisk after performing reverse imaging to upgrade VM Ware Tools...

edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

20190308git89910a39dcfd-6.el8 - edk2-ArmVirtPkg-silence-DEBUGVERBOSE-masking-0x00400000-.patch bz1714446 - edk2-OvmfPkg-QemuRamfbDxe-Do-not-report-DXE-failure-on-Aa.patch bz1714446 - edk2-ArmPkg-DebugPeCoffExtraActionLib-debugger-commands-a.patch bz1714446 - Resolves: bz1714446 edk2-aarch64 silen...

CVE-2019-18279

In Phoenix SCT WinFlash 1.1.12.0 through 1.5.74.0, the included drivers could be used by a malicious Windows application to gain elevated privileges. Adverse impacts are limited to the Windows environment and there is no known direct impact to the UEFI firmware. This was fixed in late June 2019...

Code injection

In Phoenix SCT WinFlash 1.1.12.0 through 1.5.74.0, the included drivers could be used by a malicious Windows application to gain elevated privileges. Adverse impacts are limited to the Windows environment and there is no known direct impact to the UEFI firmware. This was fixed in late June 2019...

CVE-2019-18279

In Phoenix SCT WinFlash 1.1.12.0 through 1.5.74.0, the included drivers could be used by a malicious Windows application to gain elevated privileges. Adverse impacts are limited to the Windows environment and there is no known direct impact to the UEFI firmware. This was fixed in late June 2019...

Intel Releases Security Updates

Intel has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following Intel advisories and apply the necessary updates: BMC Advisory INTEL-SA-00313 UEFI Advisory...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: edk2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

CentOS 7 : ovmf (CESA-2019:2125)

An update for ovmf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

Fedora Update for edk2 FEDORA-2019-d47a9d4b8b

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: edk2-20190501stable-2.fc30

EDK II is a development code base for creating UEFI drivers, applications and firmware images...

edk2: Privilege escalation via heap-based buffer overflow in MakeTable() function

REJECTED CVE A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in EDK II within the MakeTable function of BaseUefiDecompressLib.c, TianoCompress.c, and the UEFI specification. An authenticated attacker could exploit this flaw by supplying a crafted file, potentially leading to privilege escalatio...

edk2: Privilege escalation via processing of malformed files in BaseUefiDecompressLib.c

REJECTED CVE A vulnerability exists in EDK-2 within BaseUefiDecompressLib.c MdePkg/Library/BaseUefiDecompressLib. An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a crafted file, potentially leading to privilege escalation...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ovmf security and enhancement update

An update for ovmf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

edk2: Privilege escalation via stack-based buffer overflow in MakeTable() function

REJECTED CVE A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability was identified in EDK-2 within the MakeTable function of BaseUefiDecompressLib.c, TianoCompress.c, and the UEFI specification. An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a crafted file, potentially leading to...

HP Workstation BIOS Code Execution Vulnerability

HP Workstation is a high-performance desktop computer from Hewlett-Packard HP in the U.S. BIOS is one of the basic input and output systems. A security vulnerability exists in the HP Workstation BIOS UEFI Firmware. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to tamper with the runtime BIOS code...

Default credentials

HP has identified a security vulnerability with some versions of Workstation BIOS UEFI Firmware where the runtime BIOS code could be tampered with if the TPM is disabled. This vulnerability relates to Workstations whose TPM is enabled by default...

CVE-2019-6322

HP has identified a security vulnerability with some versions of Workstation BIOS UEFI Firmware where the runtime BIOS code could be tampered with if the TPM is disabled. This vulnerability relates to Workstations whose TPM is enabled by default...

CVE-2019-6322

HP has identified a security vulnerability with some versions of Workstation BIOS UEFI Firmware where the runtime BIOS code could be tampered with if the TPM is disabled. This vulnerability relates to Workstations whose TPM is enabled by default...