Vulnerability CVE-2008-7096
Published: 2009-08-27   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Intel Desktop and Intel Mobile Boards with BIOS firmware DQ35JO, DQ35MP, DP35DP, DG33FB, DG33BU, DG33TL, MGM965TW, D945GCPE, and DX38BT allows local administrators with ring 0 privileges to gain additional privileges and modify code that is running in System Management Mode, or access hypervisory memory as demonstrated at Black Hat 2008 by accessing certain remapping registers in Xen 3.3.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Intel -> BIOS 

 References:
http://invisiblethingslab.com/bh08/part2-full.pdf
http://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00017&languageid=en-fr
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/attacking-xen-domu-vs-dom0.html
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/intel-patches-q35-bug.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30823
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44676
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