#bios

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5061-01 - The dmidecode packages provide utilities for extracting Intel 64 and Intel Itanium hardware information from the system BIOS or Extensible Firmware Interface, depending on the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, and asset tag, as well as other details, depending on the manufacturer.

An update for dmidecode is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-30630: A vulnerability was found dmidecode, which allows -dump-bin to overwrite a local file. This issue may lead to the execution of dmidecode via Sudo.

Banking and logistics industries are under the onslaught of a reworked variant of a malware called Chaes. "It has undergone major overhauls: from being rewritten entirely in Python, which resulted in lower detection rates by traditional defense systems, to a comprehensive redesign and an enhanced communication protocol," Morphisec said in a new detailed technical write-up shared with The Hacker

There is a race between mbind() and VMA-locked page faults in the Linux 6.4 kernel, leading to a use-after-free condition.

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the device web interface (Log Query page) of BDCOM OLT P3310D-2AC 10.1.0F Build 69083 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the username parameter.

On affected platforms running Arista EOS with mirroring to multiple destinations configured, an internal system error may trigger a kernel panic and cause system reload.

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-2700: A vulnerability was found in libvirt. This security flaw occurs due to repeatedly querying an SR-IOV PCI device's capabilities that exposes a memory leak caused by a failure to free the virPCIVirtualFunction array within the parent struct's g_autoptr cleanup.

A potential vulnerability was discovered in LCFC BIOS for some Lenovo consumer notebook models that could allow a local attacker with elevated privileges to cause some peripherals to work abnormally due to an exposed Embedded Controller (EC) interface.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Supermicro motherboard X12DPG-QR 1.4b allows local attackers to hijack control flow via manipulation of SmcSecurityEraseSetupVar variable.

An issue was discovered in function nl80211_send_chandef in rtl8812au v5.6.4.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service.