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Import chipsec tool and make it work in the recovery shell

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Description

We should run chipsec as part of the recovery shell to ensure that the vulnerabilities disclosed in the REcon MTL presentation are not present in the Heads firmware. coreboot mailinglist discussion: https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-July/084766.html

https://github.com/chipsec/chipsec/tree/master/chipsec

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Research direction

Review the recovery shell and Heads firmware integration points, then read the linked coreboot mailing-list discussion and chipsec repository. Define how chipsec should be imported and invoked in the recovery shell; done means it runs there and checks for the vulnerabilities described in the REcon MTL presentation.

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Assessment

Tech stack
shell
Domain
operating-systems, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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