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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:08:11 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: Plug-and-wipe and Secure Boot semantics
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On 12/19/2012 09:34 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> We don't know what vendors are basing their UEFI bios
> implementation on the open source version, I know there is at least
> one UEFI bios that is not based on the open source version, or so
> it is reported (the BSD license of Tianocore means that we will
> never really know.)
>
> Determining what machine is running what bios from what company
> that was based on what version of the open source UEFI
> implementation is going to be a huge problem in the long run and
> something that I sure don't want to have to track.
>
> There have been reported bugs in the Tianocore in the past, I
> don't think they were "security" issues in and of themselves,
> should we be reporting them here to get CVE numbers if they are?
If it's a security issue it should ideally get a CVE so it can be
tracked. I only do Open Source CVE assignments though, for closed
source stuff/etc you'd want to ask cve-assign@...re.org directly.
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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