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

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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @10:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @10:30AM (#715120)

    Those concerns are apt for Meltdown and Spectre related bugs. But this is the separate IME, which is Intel's bug-riddled spying monitoring system.

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