Security News > 2023 > December > LogoFAIL: UEFI Vulnerabilities Expose Devices to Stealth Malware Attacks
2023-12-04 06:53
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code from various independent firmware/BIOS vendors (IBVs) has been found vulnerable to potential attacks through high-impact flaws in image parsing libraries embedded into the firmware. The shortcomings, collectively labeled LogoFAIL by Binarly, "can be used by threat actors to deliver a malicious payload and bypass Secure Boot, Intel
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