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It was originally discovered by researchers from Sentinel Labs who found that attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to locally escalate to kernel-mode privileges. Since 2009, Dell has released hundreds of millions of Windows devices worldwide which contain the vulnerable driver. The findings, which were proactively reported to Dell on 1 December 2020, essentially found that the vulnerabilities would allow attackers to bypass security products, although the researchers haven’t seen an...

It was revealed this week that Dell is in the process of updating hundreds of PC models to address a security bug affecting machines dating all the way back to 2009. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain kernel-level permissions in Windows.  The vulnerability was found by security firm Sentinel Labs and while no evidence of this vulnerability being exploited has been found, a fix is still needed. The vulnerability exists in the ‘dbutil_2_3.sys’ driver and would have been installed o...

Newly discovered security vulnerabilities put Dell PCs going back to 2009 at risk, but there are steps you can take to fix them.

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Vulnerabilities in Dell driver affect hundreds of millions of computers SHARE Dell Technologies Inc. today issued an urgent patch to address vulnerabilities found in hundreds of millions of computers sold by the company since 2009. Discovered and publicized today by researchers at SentinelLabs, the five vulnerabilities, tracked collectively as CVE-2021-21551, affect DVUtil 2.3, a Dell BIOS driver that allows the operating system and system apps to interact with the co...

Five vulnerabilities lay undetected for almost a dozen years in Windows driver code Share Copy Dell desktops, laptops, and tablets built since 2009 and running Windows can be exploited to grant rogue users and malware system-administrator-level access to the computers. Were told this amounts of hundreds of millions of machines that can be completely hijacked. This is made possible by five security vulnerabilities in Dells dbutil_2_3.sys driver, which it bundles with its PCs. These are g...

Dell is issuing a security patch for hundreds of computer models going back to 2009 May 4, 2021, 4:27pm EDT If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Share this story Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge Dell has released a security patch that fixes a security vulnerability affecting many Dell computers going back to 2009, along with instructions on how to install it if your computer is affected (via threatpost). The vulnerabilit...