Intel CPU Hardware Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability UPDATED
20 Jul. 2012
Summary
64-bit operating systems and virtualization software running on Intel CPU hardware are prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.
Credit:
The original article can be found at: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53856
The information has been provided by Rafal Wojtczuk of Bromium and Jan Beulich of SUSE
Vulnerable Systems:
* Intel CPU Hardware Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Attackers can exploit this issue to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges or to do a guest-to-host virtual machine escape. .
Vendor Status:
Vendor as issued an updated vulnerability.
