CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-38578
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-03-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-124, CWE-787
Description
Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
Affected configurations
• tianocore edk2 (<= 202202)
• insyde kernel 5.0
• insyde kernel 5.1
• insyde kernel 5.2
• insyde kernel 5.3
• insyde kernel 5.4
• insyde kernel 5.5
Related
References
- https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3387 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.insyde.com/security-pledge/SA-2023024 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3387 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/06/msg00007.html lists.debian.org
- https://www.insyde.com/security-pledge/SA-2023024 Third Party Advisory