CVE-2021-28216 (GCVE-0-2021-28216)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-08-05 20:44
Modified
2025-11-03 19:25
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-587 - A case of occurs in function FpdtStatusCodeListenerPei().
Summary
BootPerformanceTable pointer is read from an NVRAM variable in PEI. Recommend setting PcdFirmwarePerformanceDataTableS3Support to FALSE.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
TianoCore EDK II Version: EDK II Master
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