CVE-2008-7096

medium

Description

Intel Desktop and Intel Mobile Boards with BIOS firmware DQ35JO, DQ35MP, DP35DP, DG33FB, DG33BU, DG33TL, MGM965TW, D945GCPE, and DX38BT allows local administrators with ring 0 privileges to gain additional privileges and modify code that is running in System Management Mode, or access hypervisory memory as demonstrated at Black Hat 2008 by accessing certain remapping registers in Xen 3.3.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44676

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30823

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/intel-patches-q35-bug.html

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/attacking-xen-domu-vs-dom0.html

http://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00017&languageid=en-fr

http://osvdb.org/49901

http://invisiblethingslab.com/bh08/part2-full.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-08-27

Updated: 2017-08-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Medium