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New Intel Management Engine Bugs

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 31 2018, @10:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-do-you-turn-it-off? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Not that anyone is surprised or even cares but two more severe bugs have been found in the Intel Management Engine firmware. They allow remote execution with full privileges:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3627
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3628

An article about these vulnerabilities on Tech Republic provides summaries and lists the affected processors.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @07:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @07:17AM (#716100)

    This really amounts only to Not guilty, your Honor!

    Sure, it's one side to be considered but certainly not to be given undue weight.