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Dangerous vulnerabilities in dozens of Lenovo models 
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Lenovo again has problems with vulnerabilities in dozens of notebook models. ESETResearch has discovered vulnerabilities that can be used to bypass the secure UEFI Secure Boot. Lenovo reacted immediately and is providing patches. The vulnerabilities have a severity of High! ESETResearch has discovered 3 vulnerabilities in the UEFI firmware of several Lenovo notebooks and reported them to the manufacturer. The vulnerabilities allow disabling UEFI Secure Boot or restoring factory default Secure Boot databases easily from an operating system. As early as April of this year and again in September, Lenovo had to identify vulnerabilities...

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Lenovo notebooks, servers, desktops with BIOS vulnerabilities

ESET had already discovered dangerous UEFI security gaps in Lenovo notebooks in April. Lenovo itself is now reporting that it recommends installing new firmware for over 500 models, as there are sometimes highly dangerous security gaps. Lenovo has to lower the head again and report the presence of many security vulnerabilities in various BIOS versions of their devices. A few months ago, Lenovo had to patch the vulnerabilities that ESET had found in many UEFI BIOS versions. The currently published list of affected BIOS versions is again quite long. In addition to desktop PCs, notebooks, workstations, storage, servers, Lenovo lists…

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UEFI vulnerabilities in Lenovo notebooks
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Security provider ESET issues a security warning: Dangerous UEFI vulnerabilities discovered in Lenovo notebooks. Lenovo laptop owners should review the affected devices list and update their firmware according to the manufacturer's instructions. Millions of Lenovo users should update the firmware of their devices as soon as possible - this is the urgent recommendation of the European IT security manufacturer ESET. Researchers from the company discovered three dangerous vulnerabilities on the devices that open the floodgates to attackers on the laptops. For example, highly dangerous UEFI malware such as Lojax or ESPecter could be smuggled in via the security leaks. The unified…

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