Comment on Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Every device booting from UEFI is vulnerable. It’s neither a Windows nor Linux issue, it’s UEFI.
Because UEFI has Code-execution capability before OS loads. In this case it’s for the logo
setsubyou@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not related to Windows or Linux, but as the article notes, Apple devices that use UEFI are not vulnerable (and current ones don’t use it anymore and therefore aren’t vulnerable either), so I guess that’s where the “Windows or Linux” comes from.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
And I can install FreeBSD or OpenBSD on a non-Apple machine, and it will have the same security issue.
The article is written inaccurately. The issue is that the industry-standard pre-OS-load firmware patterns and interfaces (BIOS/EFI/UEFI) are vulnerable. Apple uses nonstandard/highly customized hardware, firmware, and software (because they’re more or less completely vertically integrated), and their custom stuff doesn’t have the same flaw due to that customization.