Hello, I am on a 24.04 LTS machine, Gnome desktop Environment, installed last Christmas in a Lenovo V15 G4 IRU notebook.
Every day I keep receiving the following notification:
firmware update available for UEFI dbx
UEFI dbx can be upgraded from version 20230501 to 20241101
I wonder if it is an important, recommended update or if I can skip on it. So far I never had to do firmware updates for UEFI and honestly this notification is annoying: can I get rid of it or would you suggest to do the update?
I also keep receiving that notification with my Ubuntu 24.04. But seems like what I have read that 24.04 users have some problems with that update. If you use your notebook just for personal use, then you can skip it. Linux is very secure so getting hacked isn’t very common. But if you really care about your security and want to have latest protection, then try to update. Also little bit depends if your secure boot is on or off. It isn’t required but it is recommended update.
Hi nipatsu,
thanks for your reply. I use this notebook only for personal use and if 24.04 users have some problems with that update I would skip it, if possible. Also I checked secure boot from bios before installing Ubuntu, and it was disabled by default.
This is an update for your BIOS/UEFI, these are usually rolled out by your hardware manufacturer to solve issues with behavior of the hardware, I’d check for details at the manufacturer website what the update actually provides, it could go from “minor change to fix a typo in the BIOS UI” to “fix for the disk controller where it destroys SSDs in certain circumstances”…
(And indeed it could also be related to something you do not use like secure boot, but checking is usually better)
What puzzles me is that the notification comes from an unknown app.
Moreover I checked on Lenovo website and could not find information on this upgrade, but found other users in Internet having the same issue.