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ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI Boards vulnerable to pre-boot memory attacks (securityaffairs.com)

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A new UEFI flaw exposes some ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, and MSI motherboards to early-boot DMA attacks, bypassing IOMMU protections. Researchers warn of a new UEFI vulnerability that affects select ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, and MSI motherboards, enabling early-boot DMA attacks that bypass IOMMU protections. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is the modern firmware standard that initializes […]

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

So like, to be vulnerable here, I'd either have to have some sort of weird, malicious hardware (perhaps voluntarily) installed in my system, or invite someone in who is out to hurt me by installing one such piece of hardware.

If I'm getting this right, I'll upgrade my firmware after I get back from the holidays, I think. If it's even one of the affected ones.