Excerpt of CHIPSEC 1.2.3 release notes:
New/updated modules:
* tools.vmm.vbox_crash_apicbase — test for CVE-2015-0377
* udated common.bios_ts, common.uefi.s3bootscript, remap
* added template config file smm_config.ini for tools.smm.smm_ptr SMI fuzzer
* added template config file te.cfg for tools.secureboot.te tool
New/improved functionality:
* Added basic TPM access and TPM 1.2 support
hal/tpm.py and hal/tpm12_commands.py HAL components
* Added basic Embedded Controller (EC) support
hal/ec.py HAL component and chipsec_util ec util
* Added processing of x86 paging hierarchy
hal/paging.py and hal/cpu.py HAL components and chipsec_util cpu pt util
* Added processing of Second Level Address Translation paging hierarchy (EPT)
hal/vmm.py HAL component and chipsec_util vmm pt util
* Added processing of IOMMU (VT-d) paging hierarchy
hal/iommu.py HAL component and chipsec_util iommu pt util
* Basic support for hypervisor hypercall interfaces
hal/vmm.py HAL component and chipsec_util vmm hypercall util
* Added message bus interface for Atom SoC (Linux)
hal/msgbus.py HAL component and chipsec_util msgbus util
* CPUID functionality moved from hal/cpuid.py to hal/cpu.py HAL component
Use chipsec_util cpu cpuid util
* Added parsing of RAW images in UEFI firmware volumes
* Updated smbus and SPD HAL components to use XML config
* Added qrk.xml configuration file for Quark CPUs, updated configuration for Haswell Server (hsx.xml)
* Fixed location of MMCFG in server platforms. Results from prior versions may need to be recollected on server platforms.
See full release notes for list of bugfixes.
Firmware Security 