Intel confirms new vulnerabilities in its processors

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Intel recently published a report stating that AMD processors had more vulnerabilities in 2021, but that comparison was not entirely fair, because it focused on Alder Lake-S, a generation that came to the market at the end of the year and was therefore exposed for less time.

By the twists of fate, Intel has now published information in which it acknowledges that almost all of its processors are affected by 16 new vulnerabilities that, according to the company, operate at the BIOS (firmware) level and are of low, medium, and high severity. Three vulnerabilities are of medium severity, one is of low severity, and ten are of high severity.

According to Intel, physical access to the equipment is necessary to exploit these vulnerabilities, so they cannot be exploited remotely, which means that, despite the severity of some of them, we really should not be alarmed. It seems that the vulnerabilities are due to some weaknesses at the BIOS level, such as flow management with poor control, buffer overflow, pointer problems, and incorrect validations.

Intel has confirmed that it will release firmware updates to fix these vulnerabilities. The affected processors:

2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family
Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family
Intel Xeon Processor W Family
Intel Xeon Processor E Family
Intel Xeon Processor D Family
11th Generation Intel Core Processor Family
10th Generation Intel Core Processor Family
9th Generation Intel Core Processor Family
8th Generation Intel Core Processor Family
7th Generation Intel Core Processor Family
6th Generation Intel Core processor Family
Intel Core X-series Processor Family
Intel Atom Processor C3XXX Family

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Source: Noticias3D
More information: Gerente.com