[coreboot] PCI BAR attacks on SMM at RECon Brussels
Trammell Hudson
hudson at trmm.net
Fri Mar 3 17:28:23 CET 2017
Intel ATR presented "Baring the system: New vulnerabilities in SMM of
coreboot and UEFI based systems" at RECon Brussels last month:
https://recon.cx/2017/brussels/talks/baring_the_system.html
The slides are online now:
http://www.intelsecurity.com/advanced-threat-research/content/data/REConBrussels2017_BARing_the_system.pdf
Their first conclusion is that "the root cause is that firmware assumes
hardware is trusted". This seems to be less and less of a valid assumption.
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Trammell
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