Patent ID: 11960372
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An information handling system comprising:
a memory to store a basic input/output system (BIOS); and
a processor to communicate with the memory, the processor to:
monitor the BIOS for a unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) event;
in response to a detection of the UEFI event, read a preauthorized event callback order;
compare a callback order for the UEFI event with the preauthorized event callback order;
based on the callback order for the UEFI event not matching the preauthorized event callback order, detect a potential vulnerability in the UEFI event; and
in response to the detected potential vulnerability in the UEFI event, dispatch one or more callback functions for execution in a same order as the preauthorized event callback order.