US Cert warns about 64-bit attacks

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A flaw in some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software programs are vulnerable to local privilege escalation attacks.

The problem only happens when running on Intel processors, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) announced today. The hole, dubbed CVE-2012-0217, stems from the way Intel CPUs have implemented the SYSRET instruction in their x86-64 extension, known as Intel 64...

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As MalwareTips do have members that test malware there is no need to panic, as wmware does not use SYSRET instruction. In SlashDot Forums did suggest a possible a way Wmware as well as VirtualBox.

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