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Flagging firmware vulnerabilities. [Research Saturday]

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Roya Gordon from Nozomi Networks sits down with Dave to discuss their research on "Vulnerabilities in BMC Firmware Affect OT/IoT Device Security." Researchers at Nozomi Networks has revealed that there are thirteen vulnerabilities that affect BMCs of Lanner devices based on the American Megatrends (AMI) MegaRAC SP-X. The research states "By abusing these vulnerabilities, an unauthenticated attacker may achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) with root privileges on the BMC, completely compromising it and gaining control of the managed host." As well as mentioning what patches could be in the future to help fix these vulnerabilities. The research can be found here: Vulnerabilities in BMC Firmware Affect OT/IoT Device Security – Part 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.

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I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,

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solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

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Thanks for joining us. So, a base board management controller, also known as the BMC.

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It's used for remote monitoring and management of a computer.

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That's Roya Gordon.

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She's an OT and IOT security research evangelists at Nizomi Networks.

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The research we're discussing today is titled

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Vulnerable in BMC firmware affect OT and IOT device security. And are there particular systems that they go in or are not included in?

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Are there particular systems that they go in or are not included in?

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So this was used in IT before but now vendors are trying to expand this into IOT and.T. devices. Of course, like any type of remote control of a device that's far away,

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