CVE-2022-34401 (GCVE-0-2022-34401)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-18 05:51 – Updated: 2025-04-03 19:42
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Summary
Dell BIOS contains a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an SMI to send larger than expected input to a parameter in order to gain arbitrary code execution in SMRAM.
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7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
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Dell CPG BIOS Affected: 1.4.3
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