Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SecurityFocus Article | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 11 May 2006 16:32:38 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2006-05-11 at 14:34 +0000, Ed White wrote: > The big problem is that the attack is possible thanks to the way X > Windows is designed
Where did you get that idea.
What it essentially says is "if you can hack the machine enough to get the ability to issue raw i/o accesses you can get any other power you want". Thats always been true. Using SMM to do this seems awfully hard work.
Alan
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