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Vulnerability in Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool Let Hackers Perform Escalation of Privilege and DOS Attack

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Intel released new security updates with the fixes of two vulnerabilities that affected Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool and Solid State Drives (SSD) for Data Centers (DC) S4500/S4600 Series.

Vulnerability in Processor Diagnostic Tool categorized as “High” Severity and the other vulnerability that affected Solid State Drives (SSD) S4500/S4600 Series marked as “Medium” Severity.

Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool

A software-based privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-11133) that resides in the Processor Diagnostic Tool before version 4.1.2.24 lets the attacker perform a denial of service attack and steal the sensitive information due to Improper access control.

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Jesse Michael from Eclypsium initially discovered this vulnerability reported Intel under responsible disclosed policy.

Affected Products:

Intel® Processor Diagnostic Tool for 32-bit before version 4.1.2.24_32bit.
Intel® Processor Diagnostic Tool for 64-bit before version 4.1.2.24_64bit.

Intel recommends that users of Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool update to version 4.1.2.24 or later. Download Here.

Intel Solid State Drives (SSD)

Another security vulnerability ( CVE-2018-18095) that affected Intel Solid State Drives (SSD) S4500/S4600 Series firmware that used for Data Centers (DC) let unprivileged user escalate the privilege via physical access.

Affected Products:

Intel® SSD DC S4500 Series firmware before SCV10150.
Intel® SSD DC S4600 Series firmware before SCV10150.

Intel releasing firmware updates to mitigate this vulnerability and recommends updating Intel® SSD DC S4500 Series and Intel® SSD DC S4600 Series firmware to SCV10150 or later.

This vulnerability was found internally by Intel updates are available for download Here

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Balaji
Balaji
BALAJI is an Ex-Security Researcher (Threat Research Labs) at Comodo Cybersecurity. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder - Cyber Security News & GBHackers On Security.

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