PT-2013-4494

CVE-2013-3582

Published

2013-08-28

Updated

2013-10-07

Description by

CVSS 2.0

7.6

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dell BIOS versions (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local users to bypass intended BIOS signing requirements and install arbitrary BIOS images by leveraging administrative privileges. This is achieved by providing a crafted rbu packet.pktNum value in conjunction with a crafted rbu packet.pktSize value, exploiting a buffer overflow in the Dell BIOS.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Researchers

Corey Kallenberg

John Butterworth

Xeno Kovah

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer