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SMM exploit POC code published

SMM exploit POC code published

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As mentioned earlier today, Rafal Wojtczuk and Joanna Rutkowska have published a new paper on using cache poisoning to exploit the Systems Management Mode (SMM) in Intel 386 and above chipsets. Some interesting snippets: System Management Mode (SMM) is the most privileged CPU operation mode on x86/x86_64 architectures. It can be thought of as of "Ring -2", as the code executing in SMM has more privileges than even hardware hypervisors (VT), which are colloquially...



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