Lenovo Patches Serious Vulnerabilities In PC System Update Tool (csoonline.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Friday November 27, 2015 @01:08AM from the protect-ya-neck dept.

itwbennett writes: "For the third time in less than six months security issues have forced Lenovo to update one of the tools preloaded on its PCs," writes Lucian Constantin. Last week, the company released version 5.07.0019 of Lenovo System Update, a tool that helps users keep their computers' drivers and BIOS up to date and which was previously called ThinkVantage System Update. The new version fixes two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities discovered by researchers from security firm IOActive.

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We patched your patch by JustAnotherOldGuy · 2015-11-27 01:22 · Score: 4, Funny

So they patched the vulnerable tool that was supposed to fix vulnerabilities, and probably introduced some more vulnerabilities along the way. Bravo!
Dear Lenovo, please stop. Any more 'help' like this and you'll be the death of me.

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