Intel's Software Guard caught asleep at its post: Patch out now for SGX give-me-admin hole

Intel's Software Guard caught asleep at its post: Patch out now for SGX give-me-admin hole

5 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/14/intel_patches_sgx_flaw/

While admins were busy wrangling with the mass of security patches from Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP last week, Intel slipped out a fix for a potentially serious flaw in its Software Guard Extensions (SGX) feature.

Chipzilla's January 8 update addresses CVE-2018-18098, an issue Intel describes as an "improper file verification" that can be exploited on Windows machines to escalate privileges. In effect, the security blunder can be leveraged by malware running on a system, or rogue logged-in users, to gain administrator rights and take over a vulnerable box.