CVE-2021-38578 (GCVE-0-2021-38578)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-03 21:53 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:26
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
Severity
7.4 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-23 13:13 UTC
CWE
- CWE-124 - A case of CWE-124 is occurring in PiSmmCore.
Assigner
References
3 references
Impacted products
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