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Intel® Microarchitectural Data Sampling Vulnerabilities in Modern Processors
CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, and CVE-2019-11091On May 14, 2019, Intel® and other industry partners shared details and information about a new group of vulnerabilities collectively called Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS (some media refer to it as “ZombieLoad”, “RIDL”, and “Fallout”) is a…
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SGX Update and Attestation Key Recovery
On July 25, 2017 Intel posted an advisory with updates to improve the security of Intel® Software Guard Extensions (SGX). The improvement applies to certain models of Acer 's notebook and desktop PCs, and is strongly recommended. The security and privacy of customers' information are priorities for Acer . Acer is working…
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Speculative Execution Side-Channel Vulnerabilities L1 Terminal Fault
CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, and CVE-2018-3646We are aware of the recently discovered security vulnerabilities known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). These industry-wide vulnerabilities impact many modern processors, and this class of vulnerability has the potential to improperly infer data values from multiple types of…
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Intel Security Bulletins
Where can I get information from Acer about Intel Security Bulletins?Below you will find links to Acer support articles published to address Intel Security bulletin information. Intel Microarchitectural Data Sampling Vulnerabilities in Modern Processors Speculative Execution Side-Channel Vulnerabilities L1 Terminal Fault…
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A potential security vulnerability has been identified with certain versions of Synaptics touchpad drivers.
How can I protect my system against Synaptics driver security vulnerabilities?A potential security vulnerability has been identified with certain versions of Synaptics touchpad drivers that impacts all Synaptics OEM partners. A party would need administrative privileges in order to take advantage of the vulnerability.…
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Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities
We are aware of the recently discovered security vulnerabilities known as Meltdown, Spectre and Spectre Next Generation. These industry-wide vulnerabilities impact many modern processors, and allow malicious code to force a processor into allowing access to protected data in the system memory (RAM). We are working closely…
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Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) Protocol Vulnerability
Researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens from the University of Leuven uncovered security vulnerabilities in key negotiations on both the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocols. An attacker within range of an affected wireless access point (AP) and client may leverage these…
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Intel Security Vulnerabilities Regarding Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel Server Platform Services (SPS), and Intel Trusted Execution Engine (TXE)
Intel Security Vulnerabilities Regarding Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel Server Platform Services (SPS), and Intel Trusted Execution Engine (TXE)Acer is aware of the Intel ME/TXE Elevation of privileges vulnerability, and we are diligently working to provide updates for all impacted models. Intel has recently…
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Security Advisory Regarding Vulnerability in Certain Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Chipsets
How can I protect myself from the TPM vulnerability that can allow Security Feature Bypass?A security vulnerability exists in certain Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chipsets that could allow attackers to bypass security features. Acer is working closely with Microsoft to address the situation and will begin releasing…
