Intel patches security bugs in its Management Engine

Posted on Tuesday, November 21 2017 @ 13:53 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Intel patched some security bugs in its Management Engine, a controversial feature that's part of the company's processors. Some details about these bugs were reported about earlier this month over here. Impacted processors include Skylake-based and newer chips from the Core, Atom, Celeron and Xeon lineups.

The security advisory from Intel can be found at this page.

Summary:
In response to issues identified by external researchers, Intel has performed an in-depth comprehensive security review of our Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS), and Intel® Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) with the objective of enhancing firmware resilience.

As a result, Intel has identified several security vulnerabilities that could potentially place impacted platforms at risk. Systems using ME Firmware versions 11.0/11.5/11.6/11.7/11.10/11.20, SPS Firmware version 4.0, and TXE version 3.0 are impacted.

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