This vulnerability allows hacking or deleting the BIOS
Intel does not win for trouble. The company announced a few weeks ago that it had already patched all the processors vulnerable to Meltdown and Specter, although some minors were left along the way, as well as this year will launch immune chips. Now, a new vulnerability puts the BIOS and UEFI of the motherboards of the most recent processors in check. From the motherboards of the most recent processors. All Intel processors of fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth generation, Lenovo engineers after Intel discovered the vulnerability internally. The flaw resided in the SPI flash chip, which is used during the process of turning on the computer, and allowed an attacker to block BIOS and UEFI updates, as well as eliminate or corrupt specific parts of the firmware, which causes the computer can not boot anymore until the firmware is patched again.More mistrust with intel they seem can not stop messing up lately little surprise always loose lately According to engineers say, the failure would cause a clearly visible failure, but also allow run any code that the attackers wanted, which would be done secretly from the user without his realizing it.
The patch for this vulnerability, with identifier CVE-2017-5703, was released on April 3. Among the processors affected by this vulnerability are the ones most commonly used today in both private computers with Intel Core, and in servers with Xeon. The solution was in our hands on April 3 The vulnerability has received a rating of 7.9 out of 10 on the scale of CVSSv3, so it is quite serious. The patch will be released through updates in operating systems, as well as patches at the BIOS and UEFI level. This patch, by affecting a specific part of the processor that is isolated, does not affect the performance of the computer. Hopefully Intel improves its security to avoid so many problems for users
