[coreboot] Anyone got an opinion, technical or otherwise, on this?

[ron minnich]

I wonder if anyone is going to completely trust AMT after this problem. It
goes back almost 10 years. So for all those users who had it on for almost
10 years, the question becomes, how much did we lose and when did we lose
it? The answer? We'll never know. Are we still owned? We don't know. Can we
actually trust any reflash procedure, if the ME is owned while we try to
reflash? Well, I hope so, but how can we know?

It's a worrisome situation.

ron

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 11:01 AM Patrick Georgi via coreboot <
coreboot at coreboot.org> wrote:

> Semi-Accurate only claims accuracy according to what's on the box. The
> official documentation of the issue can be found at
> https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00075
>
> It looks like a software bug in the AMT firmware. Therefore:
> - No AMT (eg on non-business consumer devices) -> no (bug | exploit).
> - Present but disabled AMT (eg. on business devices without AMT
> enrollment) -> no (bug | exploit). (although there's apparently a way
> to enable AMT unsupervised under some circumstances with some level of
> local access. or something.)
>
>
> Patrick
>
> 2017-05-02 19:31 GMT+02:00 John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie>:
> >
> https://semiaccurate.com/2017/05/01/remote-security-exploit-2008-intel-platforms/
> >
> > The article says "all" Intel boards since 2008 are locally vulnerable
> > (ME exploit), but the Intel advisory (linked within) says consumer
> > devices are okay.
> >
> > What the article says about even low end devices still having the
> > features albeit turned "off" rings true to me, based on stuff I've read
> > here and elsewhere. What's your take (bearing in mind the technical
> > details aren't available, yet)?
> >
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