BIOS problem with safety! help

Question

Hello! Saw this news and began to worry. www.myce.com/.../bug-in-dell-bios-makes-systems-vulnerable-to-attacks-76850 Tell me it's true, if yes then have this bug in XPS model 8700?

speedstep · Answer

This does not affect the XPS 8700.

CVE-2015-2890.

Note that the researchers first notified Dell of this vulnerability on 8/15/2013

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/BLUU-9XXQ9L

Vendor Statement

Some older Client Solutions (CS) commercial platforms are affected by the vulnerability described in VU#577140. Updated BIOS code has been developed to mitigate the vulnerability by addressing the configuration error during resume. Applicable BIOS update patches and revisions to address this vulnerability are listed below:

`Dell System`	`BIOS Update`	`Availability`
`Latitude E5420`	`A14`	`Available`
`Latitude E5520`	`A14`	`Available`
`Latitude E6220`	`A13`	`Available`
`Latitude E6320`	`A19`	`Available`
`Latitude E6420 / ATG`	`A21`	`Available`
`Latitude E6420 XFR`	`A21`	`Available`
`Latitude E6520`	`A19`	`Available`
`Latitude XT3`	`A13`	`Available`
`OptiPlex 390`	`A11`	`Available`
`OptiPlex 790`	`A18`	`Available`
`OptiPlex 990`	`A18`	`Available`
`Precision Mobile Workstation M4600`	`A16`	`Available`
`Precision Mobile Workstation M6600`	`A15`	`Available`
`Precision Workstation T1600`	`A16`	`Available`
`Precision Workstation T7600`	`A10`	`Available`
`Precision Workstation T5600`	`A12`	`Available`
`Precision Workstation T5600 XL`	`A12`	`Available`
`Precision Workstation T3600`	`A12`	`Available`
`Latitude E4310`	`A14`	`Available`
`Latitude E5410`	`A16`	`Available`
`Latitude E5510`	`A16`	`Available`
`Latitude E6410 / ATG`	`A16`	`Available`
`Latitude E6510`	`A16`	`Available`
`Precision Mobile Workstation M4500`	`A15`	`Available`

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BIOS problem with safety! help

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