Lenovo Warns Users To Upgrade Pre-Installed Tool With Severe Security Holes

Long-time Slashdot reader itwbennett writes: Lenovo is advising users to upgrade to version 3.3.003 of Lenovo Solution Center (LSC), which includes fixes for two high-severity vulnerabilities in the tool. [The tool] allows users to check their system's virus and firewall status, update their Lenovo software, perform backups, check battery health, get registration and warranty information and run hardware tests.

The CVE-2016-5249 vulnerability allows an attacker who already has control of a limited account on a PC to execute malicious code via the privileged LocalSystem account. And the CVE-2016-5248 vulnerability allows any local user to send a command to LSC.Services.SystemService in order to kill any other process on the system, privileged or not.

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here is the Lenovo Solution Center download

[Aryeh Goretsky]

Hello,

Since neither the original poster or the article provided it, here's a link to the page where the latest version of the Lenovo Solution Center can be downloaded from:

https://support.lenovo.com/us/...

Note that the downloads are listed at the bottom of the page.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky