The Empire Strikes Back Apple – how your Ma c firmware security is completely broken

Posted by fG on May 31

Hi,

Most Mac models suffer from a critical vulnerability in the S3
suspend/resume cycle.
When they resume from a suspend cycle the BIOS flash protections are
removed and unlocked. This means the BIOS can be overwritten from userland
at that moment.
The Dark Jedi vulnerability achieved this by modifying the S3 boot script
but Apple’s implementation is even worse and the only requirement is to
put the computer to sleep.

Please refer to…

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