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From: <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com>
To: <yehezkelshb@gmail.com>
Cc: <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>, <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>,
	<andreas.noever@gmail.com>, <michael.jamet@intel.com>,
	<ck@xatom.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<anthony.wong@canonical.com>
Subject: RE: USB devices on Dell TB16 dock stop working after resuming
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:41:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <291d19c96463462b911988d47b9a6a0d@AUSX13MPC105.AMER.DELL.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+CmpXubOwsradq=ObUF-h6WBpRF3tDx9TqaUO8TeJDqvdeGPg@mail.gmail.com>

> > But I mean this is generally an unsafe (but convenient) option, it means that you
> > throw out security pre-boot, and all someone needs to do is turn off your
> machine,
> > plug in a malicious device, turn it on and then they have malicious device all the
> way
> > into OS.
> 
> Only if the attacker found how to forge the device UUID (and knew what UUIDs
> are allowed), isn't it? Unless you take into account things like
> external GPU box,
> where it's pretty easy to replace the card installed inside it.

Notice, I never said it was easy :)

In order to turn that on something like that "generally" safely you need to have
mitigations like pre boot DMA protection in place.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-20 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-04 13:13 USB devices on Dell TB16 dock stop working after resuming Paul Menzel
2019-11-04 14:24 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-04 14:44   ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-04 15:44     ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-04 15:49       ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-11-04 16:11         ` Paul Menzel
2019-11-04 16:17           ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-11-04 16:22             ` Paul Menzel
2019-11-04 16:21           ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-19 16:55             ` Paul Menzel
2019-11-19 17:20               ` Paul Menzel
2019-11-20 10:50               ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-20 14:15                 ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-11-20 15:23                   ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-20 17:06                     ` Mario.Limonciello
2019-11-20 17:16                       ` Yehezkel Bernat
2019-11-20 17:41                         ` Mario.Limonciello [this message]
2019-11-20 17:43                         ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-20 17:39                       ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-22 10:50                 ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-22 11:05                   ` Paul Menzel
2019-11-22 11:29                     ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-22 11:33                       ` Paul Menzel
2019-11-22 11:41                         ` Mika Westerberg
2019-11-25  9:20                           ` Mathias Nyman
2019-11-26 11:33                             ` Paul Menzel
2019-11-26 12:44                               ` Mathias Nyman
2019-12-20 14:25                                 ` Paul Menzel
2019-12-23  9:39                                   ` Mathias Nyman
2020-01-17  9:56                                     ` Paul Menzel
2020-01-17 18:33                                       ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-01-18  9:15                                         ` Paul Menzel
2020-01-27 22:16                                           ` Paul Menzel
2020-02-05 13:10                                             ` Paul Menzel

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