Vulnerabilites related to IBM - System x
CVE-2020-8332 (GCVE-0-2020-8332)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-10-14 21:25
Modified
2024-08-04 09:56
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CWE
- CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Summary
A potential vulnerability in the SMI callback function used in the legacy BIOS mode USB drivers in some legacy Lenovo and IBM System x servers may allow arbitrary code execution. Servers operating in UEFI mode are not affected.
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