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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 computer’s BIOS, which is firmware used in booting up a computer, as well as hardware. Rated with a ...

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. We're told this amounts of hundreds of millions of machines that can be completely hijacked. This is made possible by five security vulnerabilities in Dell's dbutil_2_3.sys driver, which it bundles with its PCs. These are grouped under the label CVE 2021-21551, and they can be abused to crash systems, steal information,...