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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: 2) by eravnrekaree on Wednesday August 01 2018, @03:08AM (1 child)

    by eravnrekaree (555) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @03:08AM (#715506)

    This is so misinformed its really astounding. You can configure systemd to your hearts content. Its open source. You control it. If you would actually look into it rather than rattle off some canned token phrase you heard someone else say, you would know that.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:59PM (#716257)

    Configure? How about change?
    Let's start with decoupling it from the Dessktop so it can act only as an init