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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
Anonymous
This is not exact.

If you have kernel level access you obviously already have a way to mess with the system at ring 0.

If you have "only" root access (or enough privileges to play with PIO) you will now be able to mess with the system at ring 0. Thanks to SMM.
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