# CVE-2008-7096: Intel Desktop and Intel Mobile Boards with BIOS firmware DQ35JO, DQ35MP, DP35DP, DG33FB, DG33BU, DG33TL, MGM965TW, D945GCPE, and DX38BT allo

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2009-08-27 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/intel-patches-q35-bug.html
- http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/attacking-xen-domu-vs-dom0.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30823
- http://invisiblethingslab.com/bh08/part2-full.pdf
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44676
- http://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00017&languageid=en-fr
- http://osvdb.org/49901

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