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New Intel Management Engine Bugs

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 31 2018, @10:18AM   
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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• To be fair to Intel To be fair to Intel (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:21PM (2 children)

  by Arik (4543) on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:21PM (#715167) Journal

  These bugs are not their fault. They just cut and pasted some code by ast. Any bugs are the fault of the author.

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• Re:To be fair to Intel (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 31 2018, @07:22PM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday July 31 2018, @07:22PM (#715347) Homepage Journal

  Damn you, stackoverflow!

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• Re:To be fair to Intel (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:04AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:04AM (#715556)

  It's THEIR product, and THEY did a bad copypasta of someone else's code. It is thus THEIR BUGS and THEIR FAULT.

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