Getac Technology Corporation Statement on Trusted Platform Module Firmware Security Update   

Notice:

Getac Technology Corporation (“Getac”) continues to work on qualifying and applying the fixes provided by Nuvoton Technology Corporation (“Nuvoton”) to supported Getac systems. Please refer to the table below to identify fixes for your systems.

Release Date: 1st Apr, 2022

Last Updated: 26 May, 2023

Summary: 

Nuvoton has informed Getac of a potential vulnerability that an attacker with physical access to Nuvoton Trusted Platform Module (“TPM”) NPCT75x (7.2.x before 7.2.2.0) could extract an Elliptic Curve Cryptography private key via a side-channel attack against ECDSA because of an Observable Timing Discrepancy. (link)

CVEID: CVE-2020-25082

Getac Affected Products and Recommendations:

1.      For certain products currently being manufactured or already in the field, Getac will also release solutions for the update. Please check the affected products in the table below. 

2.      The latest version solution is backwards-compatible with the previous version.

Getac Affected Products and Solution

* Please note that the schedule above is subject to change due to test status.  

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