INTEL_REPORT
LWN.net (kernel & development security) · published 7/15/2026, 12:49:36 PM · TLP amber
Summary
Ingested excerpt (first ~500 chars of normalized text).
Many old shim versions are still accepted by secure boot The CMU CERT Coordination Center has put out an advisory that many exploitable versions of the shim binary, used to boot Linux on systems with UEFI secure boot enabled, were never added to the revocation list. An attacker with administrative privileges or the ability to modify the boot process could use one of the vulnerable shim bootloaders to bypass Secure Boot protections and execute arbitrary code before the operat…
https://lwn.net/Articles/1082940
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What we pulled out
Deterministic extractor (IOC + allowlisted tokens + ATT&CK IDs present in DB).
Indicators
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Malware families
Allowlist token matches only.
Threat actors mentioned
Allowlist mentions — not a formal attribution verdict.
ATT&CK techniques
MITRE IDs referenced in text and present in local technique table.
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