Dell fixes 5 bugs in millions of computers going back to 2009
Dell has also listed almost 200 affected computers that it considers to be no longer receiving service.
By IANS| Posted by Minhaj Adnan | Published: 5th May 2021 1:26 pm IST
New Delhi: Dell has issued a security patch for millions of its computers dating back to 2009, after cybersecurity research firm SentinelLabs found five serious bugs in Dell and Alienware software that allow hackers to gain full permissions in Windows on the devices.
These high-severity vulnerabilities, which have remained present and undisclosed for 12 years in Dell devices for 12 years, affect hundreds of millions of devices and millions of users worldwide.
Dell has patched five issues in a firmware update driver that has shipped in millions of laptops, tablets and desktops since 2009. The vulnerabilities apparently
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This is a result of 5 vulnerabilities discovered in Dell’s dbutil 2 3.sys driver that comes with its devices. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to cause system crashes, steal data, and grant administrator-level access to hackers. Though these can only be exploited by applications already running on the machine and only when someone is logged in.
A senior security researcher responsible for finding these vulnerabilities, Kasif Dekel, said:
While we haven’t seen any indicators that these vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild up till now, with hundreds of million of enterprises and users currently vulnerable, it is inevitable that attackers will seek out those that do not take the appropriate action.