points by kikdij 2 days ago | 0 comments
I don't know where Ars Technica got that from, though. The initial advisory [1] says:
> The attacker needs only to deliver a unicast ICMP error message addressed to the client's IP, from any network distance.
[1] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/security/advisories/GHSA-9...
Moreover, Ethernet booting is done usually from separate management networks to which only the administrators are connected, on which also other vulnerable protocols, like IPMI, are used, not from the main network that may have an Internet gateway.