full-disclosure - Re: AFS - The Ultimate Sulution?

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Message-ID: <45115300.3070701@p6drad-teel.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:41:04 +0300
From: Siim Põder <windo@...rad-teel.net>
To: Paul Sebastian Ziegler <psz@...erved.de>, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: AFS - The Ultimate Sulution?

Yo!

Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote:
> Thats a good point. Since the loader is part of the workstation it
> should be possible to swap it with full system-control.
> But what if this loader would also be taken from another server - say by
> using Netboot or something similar? Then it would be out of the reach of
> even root.

Is it possible to update BIOS memory from outside of BIOS? If so, then
it would be possible to turn netboot off after compromising root.

Siim Põder

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