Intel Squashes High-Severity Graphics Driver Flaws
Intel is warning on security bugs across its graphics drivers, server boards, compute modules and modems. Intel has issued fixes for five high-severity vulnerabilities in its graphics drivers. Attackers can exploit these flaws to launch an array of malicious attacks – such as escalating their privileges, stealing sensitive data or launching denial-of-service attacks. The graphics driver is software that controls how graphic components work with the rest of the computer. Intel develops graphics drivers for Windows OS to communicate with specific Intel graphics devices, for instance. The mos...
Source: threatpost.com