CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-34401

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-01-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-01-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-121, CWE-787

Description

Dell BIOS contains a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an SMI to send larger than expected input to a parameter in order to gain arbitrary code execution in SMRAM.

Affected configurations

• dell alienware m15 a6 firmware (< 1.4.3) • dell alienware m17 r5 firmware (< 1.4.3) • dell g15 5525 firmware (< 1.4.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References