[Cryptography] Big ugly security problem in post-2008 Intel chipsets.

John Ioannidis ji at tla.org
Tue May 2 15:39:24 EDT 2017


On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:

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> [,,,]
> https://semiaccurate.com/2017/05/01/remote-security-exploit-
> 2008-intel-platforms/
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>                                         Bear
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Any details of what level of local access is needed for a local exploit? In
particular, is this exploitable from inside a VM? That would be really bad
news for AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

/ji
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