Chip giants AMD, Intel, and Nvidia have released security advisories warning users of vulnerabilities that can be exploited to carry out a wide range of attacks. AMD announced 11 advisories, Intel published 34, and Nvidia published four security vulnerabilities. Most, if not all, of these vulnerabilities have since been patched, and readers are recommended to update to the latest driver versions available.
Intel has had the toughest time of the lot, fixing a critical Server Board BMC vulnerability that can lead to privilege escalation, information disclosure, and DoS (Denial of Service) attacks. Two additional high-severity privilege escalation vulnerabilities and two medium-severity ones allowing DoS attacks and information disclosure were also announced.
Ten additional high-severity bugs and multiple media and low-severity flaws allowing privilege escalation attacks were also disclosed. These bugs, if exploited, allow hackers to carry out a range of attacks including DoS, data leaks, and privilege escalations. Products include processor UEFI firmware, PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer WiFi, Driver Support Assistant, Thread Director Visualizer, Extreme Tuning Utility, and dozens of others are affected by these bugs.
As mentioned, AMD also announced 11 advisories, an unusually high number to disclose immediately for the company. These new advisories warn of DoS or data corruption attacks against vulnerable devices, including high-severity threats allowing privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution.
Finally, Nvidia also published four new security advisories, one of which includes a high-severity bug in Container Toolkit and GPU Operator. As is the case with AMD and Intel’s vulnerabilities, these bugs can cause arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, DoS attacks, information disclosure, and data tampering on vulnerable products if exploited.
All three companies have either released updates to patch the issues or are currently working to release security updates that can mitigate the issue. Candid.Technology recommends that readers check their AMD, Intel, and Nvidia devices for any updates and install them promptly.
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