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Cybersafety: NCC-CSIRT urges firmware update as Lenovo discovers vulnerabilities in products (Full List)

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*The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team urges consumers of the affected Lenovo products to update their firmware

Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect

Equipment manufacturer  Lenovo has revealed it discovered several vendor vulnerabilities in some of its products, which the global tech firm said could lead to information disclosure, privilege escalation, and denial of service for consumers.

ConsumerConnect reports The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) noted the vulnerabilities primarily, affect Lenovo Products (Desktop, Desktop-All in One, Hyperscale, Lenovo Notebook, Smart Office, Storage, ThinkAgile, ThinkPad, ThinkServer, ThinkStation, and ThinkSystem).

Subsequently, in an effort at protecting consumers of the tech products, the NCC-CSIRT, in its recent advisory, rated the probability of the vulnerability as high with an equally high damage potential.

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It, therefore, urged users of affected products to update their firmware.

Mr. Reuben Muoka, Director of Public Affairs at NCC, in a statement issued Wednesday, September 28, 2022, disclosed the NCC-CSIRT advisory cited the Lenovo report, first published in the second week of September, indicating that the vulnerabilities are caused by flaws in the System Management Interrupt (SMI) Set BIOS Password SMI Handler, other systems used to configure platform settings over Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), and a buffer overflow flaw in WMI SMI Handler.

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The telecoms regulatory Commission also said successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities could allow an authenticated local attacker to bypass security restrictions, gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code on the targeted system.

The attacker could also send a specially crafted request to the targeted user to gain sensitive information, which could result in unauthorised Information disclosure, privilege escalation and denial of service on the targeted system.

According to NCC-CSIRT, the solution to addressing the vulnerabilities is for users to update their system firmware to the newer version(s) indicated for their product model.

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The CSIRT is the telecoms sector’s cyber security incidence centre set up by the NCC to focus on incidents in the telecom sector and as they may affect telecom consumers and citizens at large.

The Team also works, collaboratively, with the Nigeria Computer Emergency Response Team (ngCERT), established by the Federal Government to reduce the volume of future computer risk incidents by preparing, protecting, and securing Nigerian cyberspace to forestall attacks, and problems or related events.

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