From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ed White <ed.white@libero.it>
Cc: ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SecurityFocus Article
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:32:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147361558.26130.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060511143440.23517.qmail@securityfocus.com>
On Iau, 2006-05-11 at 14:34 +0000, Ed White wrote:
> The big problem is that the attack is possible thanks to the way X
> Windows is designed
Where did you get that idea.
What it essentially says is "if you can hack the machine enough to get
the ability to issue raw i/o accesses you can get any other power you
want". Thats always been true. Using SMM to do this seems awfully hard
work.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-11 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-11 14:34 SecurityFocus Article Ed White
2006-05-11 15:06 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-11 15:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-05-11 15:47 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-11 20:03 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-05-12 0:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-12 3:17 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-12 4:13 ` Dave Airlie
2006-05-12 5:07 ` Jon Smirl
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