Dell PowerEdge Platform up to 2.21.1 SMM Communication input validation

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A vulnerability was found in Dell PowerEdge Platform up to 2.21.1. It has been rated as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component SMM Communication Handler. The manipulation leads to input validation. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-0161. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Dell PowerEdge Platform up to 2.21.1 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component SMM Communication Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS and Dell Precision Rack BIOS contain an Improper SMM communication buffer verification vulnerability. A local low privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability leading to arbitrary writes to SMRAM.

The weakness was shared 03/13/2024 by Codebreaker1337 as dsa-2024-006. It is possible to read the advisory at dell.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-0161 since 12/14/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.1.1, 1.9.1, 1.13.2, 1.14.1, 1.19.0 , 2.14.0, 2.19.0, 2.20.0, 2.21.0, 2.21.1 or 2.21.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Dell

Name

• PowerEdge Platform

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.1.0
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.9.0
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.13.0
• 1.13.1
• 1.14
• 1.14.0
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19.0
• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.14.0
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.19.0
• 2.20
• 2.20.0
• 2.21.0
• 2.21.1

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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