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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: Re: The quest for ring 0 2006-07-04
Anonymous
I can't see why you said "incorrect". Without root access, you can't get the chance to inject malicious code in kernel, can you? But with the root access, you can do everything, and mostly you can fulfill your tasks (attacking) more elegently/easily/destructively than injecting code in to the runing...

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