Dell Client BIOS DoS (DSA-2023-176)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 190130

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

The Dell BIOS on the remote device is missing a security patch and is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability. Due to a signed to unsigned conversion error, a local attacker with administrator privileges can cause a denial of service condition on an affected device.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Apply the security patch in accordance with the vendor advisory.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8a81bfc4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 190130

File Name: dell_bios_dsa-2023-176.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 2/8/2024

Updated: 7/31/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28063

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:dell:bios

Required KB Items: BIOS/Version, BIOS/Vendor, BIOS/Model

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28063