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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: Re: The quest for ring 0 2006-09-16
Anonymous
Incorrect. You need PIO access to exploit this, not "root access". "Root access" is not well-defined. Users can have PIO access without being root (via X, etc...)....

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