BIOS PrivEsc Bugs Affect Hundreds of Millions of Dell PCs Worldwide

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PC maker Dell has issued an update to fix multiple critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities that went undetected since 2009, potentially allowing attackers to gain kernel-mode privileges and cause a denial-of-service condition.
The issues, reported to Dell by researchers from SentinelOne on Dec. 1, 2020, reside in a firmware update driver named “dbutil_2_3.sys” that comes pre-installed on