Re: CHIPSEC 1.2.2 released!

[Loucaides, John <john.loucaides@intel.com>]

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Thanks, Lee! You rock! I should have sent an email to this list, yesterday. My bad.

Release notes as follows:

This version includes the following new or updated modules:

1. Updated tools.smm.smm_ptr to perform exhaustive fuzzing of SMI handler for insufficient input validation pointer vulnerabilities
2. Updated smm_dma to remove TSEGMB 8MB alignment check and to use XML "controls". Please recheck failures in smm_dma.py with the new version.
3. Updated common.bios_smi, common.spi_lock, and common.bios_wp to use XML "controls"
4. Updated common.uefi.s3bootscript which automatically tests protections of UEFI S3 Resume Boot Script table
5. Updated tools.uefi.s3script_modify which allows further manual testing of protections of UEFI S3 Resume Boot Script table
6. Added the following VMM security testing modules:
    * tools.vmm.cpuid_fuzz to test CPUID instruction emulation by VMMs
    * tools.vmm.iofuzz to test port I/O emulation by VMMs
    * tools.vmm.msr_fuzz to test CPU Model Specific Registers (MSR) emulation by VMMs
    * tools.vmm.pcie_fuzz to test PCIe device memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) and I/O ranges emulation by VMMs
    * tools.vmm.pcie_overlap_fuzz to test handling of overlapping PCIe device MMIO ranges by VMMs
7. Added tools.vmm.venom to test for VENOM vulnerability

This version includes the following new functionality:

1. Added hal.cpu component to access x86 CPU functionality. Removed hal.cr which merged to hal.cpu
2. Added ``chipsec_util cpu`` utility, removed ``chipsec_util cr``
3. Added S3 boot script opcodes encoding functionality in hal.uefi_platform
4. Added hal.iommu, cfg/iommu.xml and ``chipsec_util iommu`` to access IOMMU/VT-d hardware
5. Added ``chipsec_util io list`` to list predefined I/O BARs
6. Added support for Broadwell, Skylake, IvyTown, Jaketown and Haswell Server CPU families
7. Added ability to define I/O BARs in XML configuration using ``register`` attriute similarly to MMIO BARs
8. Added UEFI firmware volume assembling functionality in hal.uefi
9. Implemented alloc_phys_mem in EFI helper

This version includes the following fixes:

1. When calling alloc_phys_mem, the argument to set maximum physical address (max_pa) for allocation is ignored on linux. A message will be printed in dmesg if the allocation is above the max_pa that is passed in, but the call will return anyway.

This version has the following known issues:

1. Decompression of images in SPI flash parsing is not available in UEFI shell.
2. UEFI Shell environment does not support ``cpuid`` or ``get_thread_count``. There are functions that simply warn that they are not supported.
3. Size of PCIEXBAR (MMCFG) is calculated incorrectly


> -----Original Message-----
> From: chipsec [mailto:chipsec-bounces(a)lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> Blibbet
> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2015 8:27 AM
> To: chipsec(a)lists.01.org
> Subject: [chipsec] CHIPSEC 1.2.2 released!
> 
> Since the Intel CHIPSEC team only uses Twitter to announce things, I'll
> help them make this MAJOR new release more visible:
> 
> http://firmwaresecurity.com/2015/11/07/chipsec-1-2-2-released/
> 
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