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Potential vulnerability in the Intel® Driver Update Utility
| Intel ID | INTEL-SA-00047 |
|---|---|
| Product family | Intel® SSD 750 Series, Intel® SSD DC P3500 Series |
| Impact of vulnerability | Denial of Service |
| Severity rating | Important |
| Original release | Nov 17, 2015 |
| Last revised | Nov 17, 2015 |
Summary:
Intel discovered an issue with certain Intel® Solid State Drives (SSDs) that could potentially result in an inability to access user data or, in rare cases, potential data loss. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this issue.
Description:
Intel discovered an issue with certain Intel® Solid State Drives (SSDs) that could potentially result in an inability to access user data or, in rare cases, potential data loss. The drives affected by this issue are the Intel® SSD 750 Series and Intel® SSD DC P3500 Series that were produced between January 2015 and June 2015. Intel is offering a firmware upgrade to address the issue. Intel has not received any reports of Intel SSD products having experienced this issue.
Affected products:
Product Name |
Affected Firmware Versions |
Mitigated Firmware Versions |
Update Source |
|---|---|---|---|
Intel®SSD 750 Series
Intel®SSD DC P3500 Series |
8EV10135.bin, 8EV10171.bin
8DV10135.bin, 8DV10171.bin |
8EV10174.bin
8DV10174.bin |
|
Recommendations:
Intel recommends that customers with affected products apply the mitigated firmware version using any of the firmware update tools available via the Intel Download Center.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/
Acknowledgements:
This potential vulnerability was discovered internally by Intel.
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