Intel says it has discovered 16 new BIOS vulnerabilities that could allow cybercriminals to circumvent cybersecurity solutions in the operating system and access sensitive data. Furthemore, it would allow them to launch Denial of Service, as well as Privilege Escalation attacks on the local endpoint.
These flaws lead back to a wide variety of bugs found in the BIOS firmware, such as insufficient control flow management, out-of-bounds write problems, buffer overflow, improper input validation, pointer issues, default permissions, or access control issues.
