Intel and AMD address high severity vulnerabilities in products and drivers

Chipmakers Intel and AMD addressed several vulnerabilities in their products, including high-risk issues in software drivers.

Intel and AMD released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in multiple products, including high-severity flaws in software drivers.

Intel published 25 advisories impacting Intel Core i5-8305G and i7-8706G processors, and the Intel graphics driver for Windows 10 64-bit for NUC8i7HNK and NUC8i7HVK. The company fixed the issued with the release of drivers Version 21.10.

The chipmaker giant also addressed a series of high severity vulnerabilities in PROSet/Wireless WiFi and Killer WiFi, Solid State Drive (SSD) Data Center (DC) products, SoC Watch driver, and Intel processors. The vulnerabilities addressed by the company can be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges, trigger a denial of service condition, or leak information.

AMD published the AMD-SB-1021, AMD-SB-1000, bulletins to address tens of flaws in the AMD Graphics Driver for Windows 10. The fixed issues include privilege escalation issues, information leakage bugs, KASLR bypass flaws, DoS, and kernel arbitrary memory read/write data vulnerabilities.

18 out of 27 vulnerabilities addressed by AMD have been rated as high-severity, the chipmaker fixed them with the release of Radeon software 21.4.1 and higher, and 21.Q2 Enterprise Driver.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.