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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	jamagallon@ono.com, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New format Intel microcode...
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:55:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46843C4E.2020405@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4683D762.7070609@redhat.com>

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 06/28/2007 11:27 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> But the problem is very obscure and you can likely ignore it too. If your 
>> machine crashes it's very likely something else.
> 
> What about deliberate exploits of these bugs from userspace? Theo thinks
> they are possible...
> 
Do you have any details? One of the folks in a chat was saying something 
similar, but thought that causing as crash was the extent of it, rather 
than any access violation. Obviously I don't know the extent of that 
claim, so more information would be good.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-28 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-22 23:45 Daniel J Blueman
2007-03-23  0:43 ` Shaohua Li
2007-03-23  9:43   ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-03-23  9:03     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-26  8:34       ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-03-26  8:52         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-26 21:42   ` Daniel J Blueman
2007-06-26 23:29     ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-28 13:53       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-06-28 14:12         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-28 15:48           ` Alex Riesen
2007-06-28 17:27           ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-28 17:29             ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-28 17:54             ` Daniel J Blueman
2007-06-28 15:27         ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-28 15:44           ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-28 22:55             ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-06-28 22:23           ` Bill Davidsen
2007-06-28 22:30             ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-28 23:09             ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02  8:56   ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-02 17:18     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-02 18:22       ` Alex Riesen

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