EDK II UEFI flaw CVE-2026-97631 can run code before the OS
A 16-year-old PXE ICMP buffer overflow, rated 9.5, was disclosed early after AMI published a fix.
A 16-year-old PXE ICMP buffer overflow, rated 9.5, was disclosed early after AMI published a fix.
CVE-2026-97631 lets an adjacent-network attacker hang or hijack network boots on servers, and no stable EDK II release ships the fix yet.
An unauthenticated ICMP sender can overflow a 504-byte field during PXE boot; AMI’s fix surfaced early and affected devices remain unclear.
A 16-year-old buffer overflow in the PXE ICMP parser scores 9.5; an early AMI patch made the bug public before the planned January disclosure.
CERT warns an InsydeH2O SMM flaw in HP BIOS lets kernel attackers write arbitrary memory, including SMRAM.
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