An error in the Toshiba ACPI BIOS 1.6 causes the BIOS to...
Low severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 1, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 30, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
May 2, 2005
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 1, 2022
Last updated
Jan 30, 2023
An error in the Toshiba ACPI BIOS 1.6 causes the BIOS to only examine the first slot in the Master Boot Record (MBR) table for an active partition, which prevents the system from booting even though the MBR is not malformed. NOTE: it has been debated as to whether or not this issue poses a security vulnerability, since administrative privileges would be required, and other DoS attacks are possible with such privileges.
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