Gamers Warned of High-Severity Intel, Nvidia Flaws

guest · Oct 9, 2019

Gamers Warned of High-Severity Intel, Nvidia Flaws
The Intel NUC and Nvidia Shield both are vulnerable to high-severity flaws, Intel and Nvidia warned in dual advisories
October 9, 2019
https://threatpost.com/gamers-high-severity-intel-nvidia-flaws/149034/

Nvidia Shield TV is a media streaming box (powered by Nvidia’s Tegra X1 system-on-chip) that runs on the Android operating system and can be used for gaming and media streaming. Intel’s NUC mini-PC kit offers processing, memory and storage capabilities for applications like gaming, digital signage and media centers.

The dual security advisories, released separately by each company on Tuesday, address a total of four high-severity flaws. That includes two glitches in the Nvidia Shield that could enable code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, and information disclosure, as well as two vulnerabilities in the Intel NUC that could allow escalation-of-privilege, denial-of-service or information disclosure.
Nvidia Shield TV
Nvidia Shield TV is plagued by two vulnerabilities that affect versions of the device prior to 8.0.1 and are running on Android Pie (the Android OS released in 201:cool:. Both flaws rank 7.6 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scale, making them high-severity.
Intel NUC
The two high-severity vulnerabilities in Intel’s NUC (CVE-2019-14569 and CVE-2019-14570) meanwhile could enable a local attacker to launch an array of malicious attacks. [...] Tuesday advisory
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