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Pray tell, did you hear about the firmware that hit a brick wall? It asked UEFI here? (UEFI, just so we get our puns right, sounds like ‘wifey’, okay?) Alright, enough with the chuckles. So, firmware gurus uncovered high-impact vulnerabilities in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code, stemming from a host of independent firmware/BIOS vendors (IBVs). Essentially, this threatens the hardware’s health, putting it at risk of potential attacks. Quite a headache, if you ask me!
Those clever lads and lasses at Binarly must have cracked the cryptic code, because they’ve labeled these shortcomings ‘LogoFAIL’. This cleverly named mishap “can be used by threat actors to deliver a malicious payload and bypass Secure Boot, Intel”. It’s like a tech version of a Trojan horse gift your ‘wifey’ wouldn’t be so keen to accept.
Not to drop the spanner in the fun, but the vulnerability aspect here is no laughing matter. Imaging the situation: threat actors exploiting these vulnerabilities could potentially use them to bypass secure boot mechanisms, render security features useless, or the worst—inject malicious code into the system. It’s like inviting a gremlin into your tech, and we all know feeding those after midnight is a big no-no!
So, to cut the tech-talk down to size, the UEFI code from various IBVs has been found susceptible to potential attacks following the discovery of high-impact flaws identified as LogoFAIL by Binarly. These vulnerabilities in the UEFI code’s image parsing libraries could serve as a launching pad for malicious activity, including bypassing secure boot and sabotaging Intel’s security features.
We are served a code-flavored cake here, one that’s risky to ingest. The crux is we need intelligent and timely fixes to these shortcomings to ensure ‘wifey’ (UEFI) remains safe, secure and doesn’t pack her bags for a visit to the cyber attack city! So, here’s hoping the IBVs are on it faster than you can say “Unplugged Ethernet!”Original Article: https://thehackernews.com/2023/12/logofail-uefi-vulnerabilities-expose.html
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