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Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

https://thehackernews.com/2023/05/critical-firmware-vulnerability-in.html

So Gigabyte thought it would be a good idea to have their firmware insert an executable on the user's boot disk that would then load ... whatever through an insecure connection once the system is up? And this is totally ok?

Please tell me that as a Linux user I am not affected by this specific issue!

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nobody 2y ago

Don’t see how you could be since it’s a .net Windows executable

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Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

That's why I assume using Linux helps but I'm not 100% convinced the firmware is ignorant to other operating systems. Maybe the authors of the article or the researchers themselves only cared about Windows.

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nobody 2y ago

Could be. Hopefully the backlash will provoke a firmware update.

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Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

They won't remove their control. They maybe add ssl and Linux support ;)

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nobody 2y ago

Truth. Followed btw! Glad to catch another techie.