14. Boot Failure Related to UEFI Variable Usage

Description:

When certain UEFI variables were corrupted, various code would ASSERT, preventing successful boot.

Recommendation:

This is addressed by the following EDK2 SVN https://sourceforge.net/p/edk2/code/ commits: 13203, 13297, 13323, 14029, 15330, 15336, 15386, 15407, 15357, 15393, 15401, 15340, 15388, 15338, 15328, 15329, 15334, 15405, 15416, 15360, 15339, 15404, 15426, 15337, 15333, 15385, 15356, 15376, 15385, 15391, 15351, 15544, 15545, 15909, 15910, 15977

Acknowledgments:

Reported by the Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security and Corey Kallenberg, Xeno Kovah, John Butterworth, and Sam Cornwell of the MITRE Corporation.

References:

• CERT/CC VU#758382