CVE-2021-21556

State
Published
Severity
6.1 Medium
Published
Jun 14, 2021
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Jan 4, 2021

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Description

Dell PowerEdge R640, R740, R740XD, R840, R940, R940xa, MX740c, MX840c, and T640 Server BIOS contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in systems with NVDIMM-N installed. A local malicious user with high privileges may potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to a denial of Service, arbitrary code execution, or information disclosure in UEFI or BIOS Preboot Environment.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Ldell

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
PowerEdge BIOS Intel 15GDell
  • before 2.11.2Affected

References

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