Theo de Raadt Details Intel Core 2 Bugs

Posted by kdawson on Thursday June 28, 2007 @12:53AM from the linux-last-in-line dept.

Eukariote writes "Recently, Intel patched bugs in its Core 2 processors. Details were scarce; soothing words were spoken to the effect that a BIOS update is all that is required. OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has now provided more details and analysis on outstanding, fixed, and non-fixable Core 2 bugs. Some choice quotes: 'Some of these bugs... will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from userland code... Some of these are things that cannot be fixed in running code, and some are things that every operating system will do until about mid-2008.'"

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Re:Summary sucks, someone please provide better on by Hurga · 2007-06-28 01:08 · Score: 5, Funny

can someone at slashdot please provide an "english" translation of the problems and how dangerous they are to normal users?

"We don't have the complete picture yet, but things look bad"

Hanno