* The Quest for Ring 0: Security Bug in x86 Chips
posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 11th May 2006 15:50 UTC, submitted by anonymous
IconA feature called System Management Mode included in modern x86 cpus opens the way to the land of kernel space and the quest for ring zero. Federico Biancuzzi interviews French researcher Loïc Duflot to learn about the System Management Mode attack, how to mitigate it, what hardware is vulnerable, and why we should be concerned with recent X Server bugs.
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