CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-6190

Improper Initialization

Published: Feb 14, 2020 | Modified: Mar 16, 2020
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Lenovo was notified of a potential denial of service vulnerability, affecting various versions of BIOS for Lenovo Desktop, Desktop - All in One, and ThinkStation, that could cause PCRs to be cleared intermittently after resuming from sleep (S3) on systems with Intel TXT enabled.

Weakness

The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Thinkcentre_e93_firmware Lenovo * fbktdba (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

  • Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
  • For example, in Java, if the programmer does not explicitly initialize a variable, then the code could produce a compile-time error (if the variable is local) or automatically initialize the variable to the default value for the variable’s type. In Perl, if explicit initialization is not performed, then a default value of undef is assigned, which is interpreted as 0, false, or an equivalent value depending on the context in which the variable is accessed.

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