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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2016
Applicant:
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventors:
Balasingh Samuel, Round Rock, TX (US);
Walter Phillips, Georgetown, TX (US);
Richard Tonry, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/575 (2013.01);
Abstract
Unauthorized code may be stored as data in a data volume of a firmware volume. To prevent or block execution of the unauthorized code, the firmware file system (FFS) file that includes the unauthorized code may be tagged, marked or deleted according to a system bios policy. These corrupted FFS files are thus blocked from execution during initialization or a boot process of a basic input/output system (BIOS) firmware as they are not published or enumerated to an execution list of the BIOS firmware.