From: "Ed White" <ed.white@libero.it>
To: "ML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: SecurityFocus Article
Date: 11 May 2006 14:34:40 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060511143440.23517.qmail@securityfocus.com> (raw)
A researcher of the french NSA discovered a scary vulnerability in modern x86 cpus and chipsets that expose the kernel to direct tampering.
http://www.securityfocus.com/print/columnists/402
The problem is that a feature called System Management Mode could be used to bypass the kernel and execute code at the highest level possible: ring zero.
The big problem is that the attack is possible thanks to the way X Windows is designed, and so the only way to eradicate it is to redesign it, moving video card driver into the kernel, but it seems that this cannot be done also for missing drivers and documentation!
I would like to hear developers opinion about it...
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The quest for ring 0
by Federico Biancuzzi
2006-05-10
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.
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/402
next reply other threads:[~2006-05-11 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-11 14:34 Ed White [this message]
2006-05-11 15:06 ` SecurityFocus Article Andi Kleen
2006-05-11 15:32 ` Alan Cox
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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