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- The vulnerability allows attackers with physical access to conduct early-boot attacks on Intel motherboards and potentially access sensitive data.
- Carnegie Mellon University's CERT/CC says the flaw stems from IOMMU not fully activating during boot and has multiple CVE identifiers.
- Asus and other manufacturers have issued advisories and BIOS updates for affected models.
- Users should enable IOMMU DMA Protection and avoid unverified add-on devices.
