[coreboot] T450S + Coreboot

awokd awokd at danwin1210.me
Thu Sep 6 20:05:52 CEST 2018


On Wed, August 29, 2018 9:41 pm, Youness Alaoui wrote:

>
> We're about to get full control back of the ME. I've been working for
> the past few weeks on reproducing the PTResearch buffer overflow exploit on
> the ME, and yesterday they released a PoC for Apollolake (in case you
> missed it : https://github.com/ptresearch/IntelTXE-PoC), so with the
> progress I made and with that, I should be able to soon port it to skylake
> (and write docs on how to port to other platforms
> as well) which will at least give us the ability to gain back the
> 'user-controlled' aspect of it as we'd have code execution on it.
> Which by the way, also means that BootGuard can be disabled (since the
> ME is the one checking for the boot guard signatures), which should
> enable the ability to port coreboot to a lot more machines (including the
> T450S that this thread is supposed to be about). Hopefully....

Look forward to this. Would be good to regain control of parts I paid good
money for.





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