Lenovo says scope of AMI issue is “Industry-Wide”, which implies that other Intel/AMI-based OEMs may also have this issue, not just Lenovo.
BIOS SMI Handler Input Validation Failures
CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-3753
Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-14695
Severity: High
Scope of Impact: Industry-Wide
Last Modified: 08/09/2017
Potential Impact: Execution of code in SMM by an attacker with local administrative access
A vulnerability has been identified in some Lenovo products that use UEFI code developed by AMI. With this vulnerability, conditions exist where an attacker with administrative privileges or physical access to a system may be able to run specially crafted code that can allow them to bypass system protections such as Device Guard and Hyper-V. AMI has supplied a fix for this vulnerability to Lenovo. Users should update the BIOS on affected systems to the latest available version to address this issue.
Security-conscious users should consider the following mitigation steps if an immediate BIOS update is not possible to protect themselves to the fullest extent with the understanding that they DO NOT fix or fully protect against an exploit of this vulnerability:
* Enable Secure Boot on your system
* Disable the boot to UEFI shell
* Disable boot from any source but the primary internal hard drive
* Set a BIOS setup password, so Secure Boot cannot be disabled and the boot to the UEFI shell cannot be re-enabled
* Operate as an unprivileged (non-administrator)
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-3753
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-3753
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/len-14695
AFAICT nothing on the AMI site on this.
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