As a result, Intel has identified security vulnerabilities that could potentially place impacted platforms at risk. Intel has issued a security notice ( INTEL-SA-00086) for select systems that use Intel ® Management Engine (ME), Intel ® Server Platform Services (SPS), and Intel ® Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) with the objective of enhancing firmware resilience.

Data Center Solution Engineering (DCSE).

Server quality, built for gaming – SUPERO systems by Supermicro are optimized for high performance and reliability, providing options for gamers at all levels This tool will only work if your firmware version is higher than. Using the Coreboot Configurator you can turn off the Intel ME using the steps in this article. See this page for information about manually disabling (or enabling) the ME. PCs running coreboot can disable the IME using coreboot's nvramtool.

This option is usually disabled by default, although there have been some models that required re-disabling after an over-the-air firmware update see this section of the firmware update article for instructions.

System76 maintains a list of machines that ship with Open Firmware in this article.įor proprietary firmware systems, if the option to disable (or enable) the IME is available, it is typically located under Advanced ➞ Advanced Chipset Control. See this article for instructions to access the firmware menu for your System76 machine.įor Open Firmware systems, the IME is typically disabled by default unless doing so would break functionality (such as suspend/resume). You can confirm if the IME is enabled on your PC by booting into the firmware menu and navigating to Firmware Configuration Information.

System76 Open Firmware can disable the IME, among other features. System76 Open Firmware is an open source distribution of firmware utilizing coreboot, EDK2, and System76 firmware applications.

The Intel Management Engine is a proprietary, mostly undocumented, firmware system that provides many extraneous features that are generally not usable or useful to our users, with multiple known vulnerabilities that compromise the entire system. System76 Open Firmware systems provide some control to enable and disable the IME. System76 laptops will have the Intel Management Engine (IME) disabled when it does not break functionality.

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