Title
BootKeeper - Validating Software Integrity Properties on Boot Firmware Images.
Abstract
Boot firmware, like UEFI-compliant firmware, has been the target of numerous attacks, giving the attacker control over the entire system while being undetected. The measured boot mechanism of a computer platform ensures its integrity by using cryptographic measurements to detect such attacks. This is typically performed by relying on a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Recent work, however, shows that vendors do not respect the specifications that have been devised to ensure the integrity of the firmware's loading process. As a result, attackers may bypass such measurement mechanisms and successfully load a modified firmware image while remaining unnoticed. In this paper we introduce BootKeeper, a static analysis approach verifying a set of key security properties on boot firmware images before deployment, to ensure the integrity of the measured boot process. We evaluate BootKeeper against several attacks on common boot firmware implementations and demonstrate its applicability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3292006.3300026
CODASPY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
firmware, TPM, SCRTM, binary analysis
Journal
abs/1903.12505
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), Mar 2019, Dallas, United States. ACM Press, pp.11, Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. http://www.codaspy.org/
978-1-4503-6099-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ronny Chevalier100.34
Stefano Cristalli201.35
Christophe Hauser31176.86
Yan Shoshitaishvili435826.98
Ruoyu Wang528216.23
Christopher Kruegel68799516.05
Giovanni Vigna77121507.72
Danilo Bruschi877170.35
Andrea Lanzi984540.99