From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Ed White" <ed.white@libero.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SecurityFocus Article
Date: 11 May 2006 17:06:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73mzdo7g91.fsf@bragg.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060511143440.23517.qmail@securityfocus.com>
"Ed White" <ed.white@libero.it> writes:
> A researcher of the french NSA discovered a scary vulnerability in modern x86 cpus and chipsets that expose the kernel to direct tampering.
>
It's nothing new really. Similar attacks have been known and discussed
in theory for years.
>From a security perspective X server and anything else with direct
hardware access is essentially part of the kernel.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-11 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-11 14:34 Ed White
2006-05-11 15:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-05-11 15:32 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-11 15:47 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-11 20:03 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-05-12 0:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-05-12 3:17 ` Jon Smirl
2006-05-12 4:13 ` Dave Airlie
2006-05-12 5:07 ` Jon Smirl
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