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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: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:04PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:04PM (#715159) Homepage Journal

    Maybe one day I'll just mail all the reports to the owner of the vehicle telling them how I notified OnStar and the dealership about their personal information going to a stranger, with copies to news agencies. Or maybe not. What does Soylent think?

    Is this even a question? Sounds like fun for the whole family.

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