Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska’s Black Hat flawOpen in New Window
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Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor.<br />The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were withheld until Intel could release its patch.<br />That patch is [...]<br style="clear: both;"/><br /> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=b842a57607d02e1726351cc166d50041"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=b842a57607d02e1726351cc166d50041"/></a><br /> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=b842a57607d02e1726351cc166d50041" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/security/~4/376292562" height="1" width="1"/>
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