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UEFI shim loader

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2023-03-02 · latest 2024-01-26

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  1. Looking at the commit in isolation can be somewhat misleading. If you look at the surrounding code https://github.com/rhboot/shim/blob/0226b56513b2b8bd5fd281bc... , it's receiving chunks of data in a loop, checking to make sure new data…
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    CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers
    story by DyslexicAtheist · 2024-01-25 · 108 comments
  3. A new mechanism called SBAT ( https://github.com/rhboot/shim/blob/main/SBAT.md ) is now used to allow revocation of groups of bootloaders rather than individual hashes in order to mitigate the resource consumption