Re: [XFree86] SecurityFocus Article

2006-05-12 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Ed White wrote: 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

[XFree86] SecurityFocus Article

2006-05-11 Thread Ed White
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