Are you still rocking your X1 Carbon Gen 6 in 2020? Well, Lenovo just released a new BIOS firmware 1.50.

Here are changes in this release:

[Important updates]
 - Update includes a security fix.
 - Addresses CVE-2020-8696 and CVE-2020-8698.
   (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8696)
   (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8698)
 - Addresses CVE-2020-0587, CVE-2020-0588, CVE-2020-0590, CVE-2020-0591,
   CVE-2020-0592, and CVE-2020-0593.
   (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0587)
   (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0588)
   (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0590)
   (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0591)
   (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0592)
   (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0593)

[New functions or enhancements]
 - Updated the CPU microcode.
 - Updated the Diagnostics module to version 04.15.000.

[Problem fixes]
 Nothing.

It’s worth to note that this new firmware is available on Fedora (33) via fwupdmgr.

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