Another day - another security vulnerability: Dell Support Assist

Another day - another security vulnerability: Dell Support Assist

A Windows support tool bundled with Dell computers has a high-severity security hole that leaves millions of systems at risk of a privilege-escalation attack, Dell has announced that both the Business and Home versions of its SupportAssist tool have a security vulnerability within the PC Doctor component that requires immediate patching. The discovery was made by SafeBreach, and there could be over 100 million systems that are affected



If you are using Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs version 2.0, or Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 3.2.1 or an earlier version, your system is vulnerable. You need to update to at least Dell SupportAssist for Business PCs version 2.0.1 or Dell SupportAssist for Home PCs version 3.2.2.



P.S. Since we have no use for the tool, I suggest we just uninstall it for supported customers…



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