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• Intel motherboard BIOS loopholes

  2009-11-23 | Tag：

  Intel has said its large desktop and server motherboard basic input output system appears (Bios) security issues. 
  
  Intel this week released a Bios update 3 content and on the bulletin board of specific models that it contains a mention of the right (a kind of being used by hackers to gain access to a system or network control method) vulnerabilities. This loophole may have been management level privileges, an attacker who is running to change the code in the system management mode, the system management mode is a run on the operating system outside the control of privileged mode. In its announcement, Intel also said: "In this mode of malicious software may cause much damage." 
  
  Intel said its not previously aware of the emergence of loopholes in the proposed system administrators to immediately apply for Bios for updated content.
  
  Infected desktop board include: D5400XS, DX58SO, DX48BT2, DX38BT, DP45SG, DQ45CB, DQ45EK, DQ43AP, DB43LD, DG41MJ, DG41RQ, DG41TY, DG45ID, DG45FC, DG43NB, DP43TF, DQ35JO, DQ35MP, DG33BU, DG33FB, DG33TL , DP35DP, D945GSEJT, D945GCLF and D945GCLF2. 
  

  The infected server motherboard include: S3000, S3200, S5000, S5400 and S5500 series. 
  
  Invisible Things Lab researcher Alexander Tereshkin, Rafal Wojtczuk, and Joanna Rutkowska, discovered the vulnerability. Last year, Lu Teke ska in the Xen hypervisor has revealed a high kernel-level privileges Trojan (rootkit), it had been issued to Intel once Bios updates. 
  
  In addition, Intel's first 34nm manufacturing process SSD hard drive soon after the release last week was a Bios vulnerabilities.
  
  leo.chang 发表于16:04:06 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0