Executive Summary
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Title | Intel BIOS locking mechanism contains race condition that enables write protection bypass |
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Name | VU#766164 | First vendor Publication | 2015-01-05 |
Vendor | VU-CERT | Last vendor Modification | 2015-02-05 |
Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | M |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
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Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
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Cvss Base Score | Not Defined | Attack Range | Not Defined |
Cvss Impact Score | Not Defined | Attack Complexity | Not Defined |
Cvss Expoit Score | Not Defined | Authentication | Not Defined |
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Detail
Vulnerability Note VU#766164Intel BIOS locking mechanism contains race condition that enables write protection bypassOverviewA race condition exists in Intel chipsets that rely solely on the BIOS_CNTL.BIOSWE and BIOS_CNTL.BLE bits as a BIOS write locking mechanism. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in a bypass of this locking mechanism. Description
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References
CreditThanks to Corey Kallenberg and Rafal Wojtczuk for reporting this vulnerability. This document was written by Todd Lewellen. Other Information
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Original Source
Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/766164 |
Alert History
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2015-02-05 17:22:19 |
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2015-02-03 17:21:42 |
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2015-01-21 17:21:41 |
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2015-01-07 17:22:47 |
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2015-01-06 21:47:19 |
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2015-01-05 17:22:20 |
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