So a company as big as microsoft cant stand to their under 20 products and fix this issue quickly, but Asus and Lenovo can release patches for many more systems? Hard to recommend the Surface Laptop if not even the Security aspect is true.
Surface Studio Vulnerable to INTEL-SA-00086 Critical Security Vulnerability - Requires Microsoft to Issue a Firmware Update - How Long?
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Intel released a disclosure today on a series of vulnerabilities in their management engine and trusted execution engine, affecting Surface Studio (and presumably other Surface devices).
https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00086&languageid=en-fr
They included a tool to check to see if your system is vulnerable:
http://www.intel.com/sa-00086-support
I've run the tool on a Surface Studio and confirmed that is vulnerable and requires Microsoft to issue a firmware update with the patch Intel provided. As they have presumably already given the patch to you, I'm wondering how long you're going to leave us all vulnerable to this before you release the required firmware update to patch this?
We need this fixed ASAP!
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2017-11-28T20:53:06+00:00 Surface Book 2 is also affected
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Anonymous
2017-11-28T15:07:56+00:00 I can confirm that the first gen Surface Book is also affected.
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Anonymous
2017-11-28T08:47:02+00:00 I'm pretty sure that SP4 and anything released after SP4 is vulnerable.
True = I have a surface laptop that's vurnable as well.
Just want to point out this is not just a vurnability anymore their is an existing exploit for this and parts of this will be presented at Blackhat UK 2017 06-12-17. I really hope Microsoft puts out a patch before that.
The best solution would be to disable Intel ME completly :-)
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Anonymous
2017-11-27T19:55:40+00:00 Same issue on my Surface pro 4 but not on my Surface 3 as mentioned here. Can the ME be disabled without affecting usual usage of Surface 4 pros?