social @ 2026-10-28Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/code-execution-flaw-in-uefi-firmware-threatens-most-servers-on-planet-earth/This is an interesting bug for a few reasons:- In part of the code that was heavily fuzzed (but ICMP was skipped)- In the reference SDK used by huge amounts of downstream firmware- Exploitable before the PCH check (can attack BitLocker keys in TPM)- A forever-vulnerability in out-of-support hardwareGreat work by Alex Matrosov (Anthropic) and Dan Holmes-Mitra (Google)!