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IPMI firmware can be patched, as can the BIOS which contains the microcode that is loaded. Once the OS boots, updating the running microcode included is trivial
by KennyBlanken 3y ago
IPMI firmware can be patched, as can the BIOS which contains the microcode that is loaded. Once the OS boots, updating the running microcode included is trivial (in Linux and I believe also FreeBSD?) and can be done before the system's network interfaces come up.
- Animats 3y agoYou can't patch the management engine without the cooperation of the management engine itself, right?
- wolfwyrd 3y agoShouldn’t[0] be able to. It’s all still fallible software written by humans. [0] https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/06/02/conti_rasomware_intel_firmware/ https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/06/02/conti_rasomware_i...