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Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 years ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

So why can’t root add new keys?

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[–] technohacker@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

The firmware has to allow it, so if you've got physical access to the machine that's possible. Remote access root, on the other hand, can't tell the firmware to register new keys as long as it's configured correctly

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