Acer taking steps to address a security vulnerability

• に Sukanya Borah
• 11月 30, 2022
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Acer taking steps to address a security vulnerability A firmware update has been released by Acer to address a security vulnerability that could be potentially weaponized to turn off UEFI Secure Boot on affected machines. The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-4020, affects five different models that consist of Aspire A315-22, A115-21, and A315-22G, and Extensa EX215-21 and EX215-21G. The PC maker described the vulnerability as an issue that “may allow changes to Secure Boot settings by creating NVRAM variables.” ESET researcher Martin Smolár is credited with discovering the flaw , who previously disclosed similar bugs in Lenovo computers. Disabling Secure Boot, an integrity mechanism that guarantees that only trusted software […]