CVE-2021-38578
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-03-03 21:53
Modified
2024-08-06 00:55
Summary
Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
TianoCore EDK II Version: edk2-stable202208
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