Re: Pentium Computers Vulnerable to Attack?

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 4/12/06, Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
> On 4/11/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:16:06 CDT, Matthew Murphy said:
> >
> > > of physical memory.  The attack is sophisticated, rare and non-trivial,
> > > but the idea is that you can gain root privileges and then write to
> > > /dev/xf86.
> >
> > Get root, and then use that to get root. What's wrong with this picture? :)
> >
> > As I said - unless he found a way to do it from user mode, it's not interesting.
>
>
> Ja, it works on BSD and Linux, but not Windows. Apparently Xserver has
> some nifty registers that windows is missing.
>
> Still though, it sounds pretty bad because if you do use this exploit
> after compromising a system, couldnt you could remain there even after
> a re-image?

Err nevermind about that last question, I guess SMM is still part of
the OS, sorry for the brainfart all

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