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No Hat 2020 - Alexander Ermolov & Dmitriy Frolov

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Intel ACMs

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Summary

Security analysis and exploitation of Intel Authenticated Code Modules used by Boot Guard, TXT SINIT, and BIOS Guard. ACMs are signed binaries loaded from CPU microcode; vulnerabilities can undermine TXT, Boot Guard, BIOS Guard, and SGX. Discusses reverse engineering encrypted ACMs and extracting decrypted images from L3 cache.

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