HOT NEWS: Major flaw in millions of Intel chips revealed

Started by icecream-guy, January 03, 2018, 11:56:54 AM

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deanwebb

Got the CERT advisories on it coming in, as well.

On platforms that don't allow kernel access from the code, you're good with the usual exception for bad actors with physical access to the device. So if you're running a hardened Linux kernel or Windows NT4 SP2, you're in good shape.
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