WAwalterbell·Mar 28, 2017Submission
A repo for all Apple EFI firmware files
2 points · Open discussiongdbinit
firmware_vault
Hardware & Embedded2017–2017
gdbinit / firmware_vault
firmware_vault
A repo for all Apple EFI firmware files
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
294GitHub stars
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What it is
A repo for all Apple EFI firmware files
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| Mar 23, 18:00 | 2017-03-23 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 24, 00:00 | 2017-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-24 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24, 06:00 | 2017-03-24 06:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-24 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24, 12:00 | 2017-03-24 12:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-24 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24, 18:00 | 2017-03-24 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 00:00 | 2017-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-25 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 06:00 | 2017-03-25 06:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-25 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 12:00 | 2017-03-25 12:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-25 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 18:00 | 2017-03-25 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 00:00 | 2017-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-26 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 06:00 | 2017-03-26 06:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-26 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 12:00 | 2017-03-26 12:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-26 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 18:00 | 2017-03-26 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 00:00 | 2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-27 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 06:00 | 2017-03-27 06:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-27 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 12:00 | 2017-03-27 12:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-27 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 18:00 | 2017-03-27 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 00:00 | 2017-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-28 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 06:00 | 2017-03-28 06:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-28 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 12:00 | 2017-03-28 12:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-28 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 18:00 | 2017-03-28 18:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThe released documents are very old,
so we don't really know what's the actual state of the art.
This is what I did (any express or implied warranty is disclaimed):
> diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme xxx.x GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage <Root_Name> xxx.x GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
...
> sudo diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1
Volume EFI on /dev/disk0s1 mounted
> ls -R /Volumes/EFI/EFI/APPLE
EXTENSIONS FIRMWARE UPDATERS
/Volumes/EFI/EFI/APPLE/EXTENSIONS:
Firmware.scap
/Volumes/EFI/EFI/APPLE/FIRMWARE:
MBxx_xxxx_Bxx_LOCKED.fd
/Volumes/EFI/EFI/APP
Read the rest
LE/UPDATERS:
MULTIUPDATER USBCVA
...
Be sure there are no unwanted extensions.
> shasum -a 256 <MBxx_xxxx_Bxx_LOCKED.fd>
A sha hash is returned, check it against https://github.com/gdbinit/firmware_vault.
If there's a mismatch, you may be affected.