First published: Mon Nov 27 2017(Updated: )
Samsung 850 Pro and PM851 solid-state drives and Seagate ST500LT015 and ST500LT025 hard disk drives, when used on Windows and operating in Opal mode on Lenovo ThinkPad T440s laptops with BIOS 2.32 or ThinkPad W541 laptops with BIOS 2.21, or in Opal or eDrive mode on Dell Latitude E6410 laptops with BIOS A16 or Latitude E6430 laptops with BIOS A16, allow physically proximate attackers to bypass self-encrypting drive (SED) protection by triggering a soft reset and booting from an alternative OS, aka a "Forced Restart Attack."
Credit: cret@cert.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Samsung 850 Pro Firmware | ||
Samsung 850 Pro | ||
Samsung Pm851 Firmware | ||
Samsung Pm851 | ||
Seagate St500lt015 Firmware | ||
Seagate ST500LT015 | ||
Seagate St500lt025 Firmware | ||
Seagate St500lt025 |
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