US-CERT Discloses Security Flaw In 64-Bit Intel Chips

Fnord666 writes "The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has disclosed a flaw in Intel chips that could allow hackers to gain control of Windows and other operating systems, security experts say. The flaw was disclosed the vulnerability in a security advisory released this week. Hackers could exploit the flaw to execute malicious code with kernel privileges, said a report in the Bitdefender blog. 'Some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software running on Intel CPU hardware are vulnerable to a local privilege escalation attack,' the US-CERT advisory says. 'The vulnerability may be exploited for local privilege escalation or a guest-to-host virtual machine escape.'" According to the article, exposed OSes include "Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, 64-bit versions of FreeBSD and NetBSD, as well as systems that include the Xen hypervisor."

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Score one for Vista

[Likes Microsoft]

XP, Win7, and Server Core are affected, but somehow, Vista isn't!

Re:Score one for Vista

[msauve]

There are a couple of people who are going to be relieved!

the bazaar strikes again

[marcello_dl]

Microsoft Corporation: Affected by the bug-
notified:01 May 2012 corrected:08 Jun 2012
Debian GNU/Linux: Affected by the bug- Unknown
notified:02 May 2012 corrected:02 May 2012

Easy victory for debian, as there was no manager who had to wonder how fixing the bug ASAP vs. schedule the fix for later could potentially affect his career...

Re:Does a guest know it's a guest

[Sponge Bath]

This is an illegal exit. You must return to game grid. Repeat! This is an illegal exit. You must return to the grid.