A Tour Beyond BIOS - Security Enhancement to Mitigate Buffer Overflow in UEFI

A Tour Beyond BIOS - Security Enhancement to Mitigate Buffer Overflow in Unified Extensible Interface (UEFI)

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Contributed by

Jiewen Yao, Intel Corporation

Vincent J. Zimmer, Intel Corporation

Jian Wang, Intel Corporation

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Revision History

Revision	Revision History	Date
01.0	Initial release.	Oct 2016
02.0	Added: enabling of a special pool feature, how does it work, how to debug, etc…., Convert to Gitbook	March 2018