CVE-2021-38578 (GCVE-0-2021-38578)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-03-03 21:53
Modified
2025-11-03 19:26
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-124 - A case of is occurring in PiSmmCore.
Summary
Existing CommBuffer checks in SmmEntryPoint will not catch underflow when computing BufferSize.
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