This glitch “may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, denial of service or information disclosure via local access” according to Intel.

It stems from insufficient access control in a hardware abstraction driver for the software, versions earlier than. The flaw ( CVE-2019-11163) has a score of 8.2 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, making it high severity. One of the more serious vulnerabilities exist in the Intel Processor Identification Utility for Windows, free software that users can install on their Windows machines to identify the actual specification of their processors. “An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to gain an escalation of privileges on a previously infected machine.” “Intel has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products,” according Intel’s Tuesday advisory. The update is part of an August round of patches issued by the chip maker, addressing three high-severity flaws and five medium-severity bugs. The flaw could have an array of malicious impacts on affected systems, such as opening systems up to information disclosure or denial of service attacks. Do not downloads this utility if your device manufacturer is recommending it to correct an 'AGP Driver', 'AGP Gart', o 'USB Driver' issue it will not correcto your issue.Intel is warning of a high-severity vulnerability existing in its software that identifies the specification of Intel processors in Windows systems. The Intel Chipset Device Software does not install drivers for AGP or USB.

This allows the operating system to show the correct name for that piece of hardware in Device Manager. In the case of the current Intel Chipset Device Software, that information is primarily the product name for the piece of hardware. An INF is a text file that provides the operating system with information about a piece of hardware on the system. The Intel Chipset Device Software installs the Windows* INF files. Intel Chipset Device Software is the new name for the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility this name will be seen when running the installation package.

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