Intel CPU Privilege Escalation Exploit
A very interesting security concern quoted as being: "This is the scariest, stealthiest, and most dangerous exploit I've seen come around since the legendary Blue Pill!"
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/19/179228 http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/39825 http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.c...intel-cpu.html http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1130 This seems to be related to the system firmware / BIOS code so the exploit will work on all systems. However, it needs root privileges to be possible. Yet another reason to have FLOSS firmware / BIOS ... and not normally run a system as root. |
Interesting information !
I use AMD since Athlon 1. And i wait for ARM notebooks. Any danger about these, related to Intel flaw ? |
Anybody know if this is all intel CPU's or just certain ones (newer perhaps?). I don't suppose theres any fix to this kind of error.
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Well it says:
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel...ds-92554.shtml So basically, a BIOS upgrade may fix it. I don't know exactly the nature of the exploit as they don't do their best to use layman's terms or put it in ways normal people can understand. I fixed the original post as it seems this is a BIOS exploit. Also, you need root privileges in order for such an attack to be possible ... so don't run as root. |
Here's more recent article on it:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/1815226 Supposedly it's easier to implement on Linux, because mtrr can be easily accessed as root. Thus, the exploit requires root privileges. And it requires a vulnerable mobo. |
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