Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-30772 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Insyde Kernel

047910
CVSS 8.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
HIGH
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
insyde
CWE-787

Summary

Manipulation of the input address in PnpSmm function 0x52 could be used by malware to overwrite SMRAM or OS kernel memory. Function 0x52 of the PnpSmm driver is passed the address and size of data to write into the SMBIOS table, but manipulation of the address could be used by malware to overwrite SMRAM or OS kernel memory. This issue was discovered by Insyde engineering during a security review. This issue is fixed in: Kernel 5.0: 05.09.41 Kernel 5.1: 05.17.43 Kernel 5.2: 05.27.30 Kernel 5.3: 05.36.30 Kernel 5.4: 05.44.30 Kernel 5.5: 05.52.30 https://www.insyde.com/security-pledge/SA-2022065

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)