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Dell Client BIOS Improper SMM Communication Buffer Verification (DSA-2024-104)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 266459

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

The Dell BIOS on the remote device is missing a security patch and is, therefore, affected by an Improper SMM communication buffer verification vulnerability. A physical high privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability leading to arbitrary writes to SMRAM.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Apply the security patch in accordance with the vendor advisory.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1e9797a3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 266459

File Name: dell_bios_dsa-2024-104.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 10/3/2025

Updated: 10/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-25942

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:dell:bios

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-25942

IAVA: 2025-A-0713