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The quest for ring 0
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.

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Re: The quest for ring 0 2006-05-11
Matthew Murphy
Incorrect. This exploit enables an attacker (presumably in a root-limited environment) with root privileges to inject code into the kernel. As Loic said, it can be used to bypass some security protections (securelevels, chroot, etc.)...

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