Skip to content

Navigation Menu

Sign in
Appearance settings

Search code, repositories, users, issues, pull requests...

Provide feedback

We read every piece of feedback, and take your input very seriously.

Saved searches

Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly

Appearance settings

no longer disable Intel ME related kernel modules #239

Copy link
Copy link
@adrelanos

Description

@adrelanos
Issue body actions

For rationale, see:
https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/Out-of-band_Management_Technology#Intel_ME_Disabling_Disadvantages

## Intel Management Engine (ME):
## Partially disable the Intel ME interface with the OS.
## ME functionality has increasing become more intertwined with basic system operation.
## Disabling may lead to breakages places such as security, power management, display, and DRM.
##
## https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/mei/mei.html
## https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Security_vulnerabilities
## https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/Out-of-band_Management_Technology#Intel_ME_Disabling_Disadvantages
## https://github.com/Kicksecure/security-misc/pull/236#issuecomment-2229092813
##
install mei /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install mei-gsc /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install mei_gsc_proxy /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install mei_hdcp /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install mei-me /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install mei_phy /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install mei_pxp /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install mei-txe /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install mei-vsc /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install mei-vsc-hw /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install mei_wdt /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc
install microread_mei /usr/bin/disabled-intelme-by-security-misc

Disabling Linux Intel ME related kernel modules does nothing to disable Intel ME from the CPU.

related:

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions

      Morty Proxy This is a proxified and sanitized view of the page, visit original site.