On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:57:38PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 17:54 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > ? That's the message generated by the Windows access control mechanism > > when you run a binary that requests elevated privileges. > > So that's a windows attack vector using a windows binary? I can't really > see how it's relevant to the secure boot discussion then.
A user runs a binary that elevates itself to admin. Absent any flaws in Windows (cough), that should be all it can do in a Secure Boot world. But if you can drop a small trusted Linux system in there and use that to boot a compromised Windows kernel, it can make itself persistent. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
