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mjg59 on June 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance

The UEFI variable store is typically just a region of the flash chip that stores the firmware. It's not impossible that some systems perform some sort of integrity validation, but I haven't seen that in the wild.

Harvesterify on June 2, 2021 [–]

Isn't Intel Bios Guard supposed to protect against this very attack ?

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