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Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw

zdnet.com » 2008 » August » 27th » Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw

Tagged: hardware, virtualization, black hat, motherboard, bios, hypervisor, flaw, components, intel corp, ryan naraine, bios update, level privilege, system management mode

Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were … Continue Reading »

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