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Latest BIOS vulnerabilities in ThinkPads

#1 Post by Puppy » Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:45 pm

If you read Lenovo forums from time to time, especially the P and W one, you might notice that there are way too many BIOS issues. P machines sometimes does not boot, does not recognize drive or becomes dead when docked.

In addition to this, there seems to be couple of new SMM attacks
https://support.lenovo.com/us/us/solutions/LEN-8324
https://support.lenovo.com/my/en/produc ... y/len_4901
https://support.lenovo.com/us/us/produc ... y/len_4710

This one is already fixed
https://support.lenovo.com/us/us/produc ... smm_attack

It is also worth to read another latest ones https://support.lenovo.com/us/us/product_security/home
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Re: Latest BIOS vulnerabilities in ThinkPads

#2 Post by hhhd1 » Fri Jul 01, 2016 6:54 pm

Puppy wrote: This one is already fixed
https://support.lenovo.com/us/us/produc ... smm_attack
this one appears to allow using a modded BIOS :mrgreen:
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