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Intel Desktop Boards Privilege Escalation (INTEL-SA-00022)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44624

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Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The version of the Intel BIOS on the remote host is affected by an unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability.

A local attacker with administrative (ring 0) privileges could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in System Management Mode (SMM).

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant BIOS firmware referenced in the vendor's advisory.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ecad75c1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44624

File Name: intel_sa_00022.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Family: Misc.

Published: 2/16/2010

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: BIOS/Version, BIOS/Vendor, BIOS/ReleaseDate

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0560

BID: 38251

Secunia: 38413