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> With no fixes available from Intel or Lenovo, there’s not much users of these affected hardware can do. It’s worth mentioning explicitly, however, that the se
by transpute 3y ago
> With no fixes available from Intel or Lenovo, there’s not much users of these affected hardware can do. It’s worth mentioning explicitly, however, that the severity of the lighttpd vulnerability is only moderate and is of no value unless an attacker has a working exploit for a much more severe vulnerability.
For unsupported but functional hardware with vulnerable BMCs, it would be helpful to have a toolkit (e.g. stacking multiple exploits) for hardware owners to replace the vulnerable software with OpenBMC, https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc.
Abandoned hardware owners could crowdfund an effort to add OpenBMC compatibility testing for their devices. This also falls under the rubric of repairability technology and a circular economy for electronics.
- snvzz 3y agoIdeally, we'd be able to buy new boards that use openbmc rather than whatever bespoke garbage vendors bundle these days.