Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-08-06 Thread Bill Crisp
me know if you have a chance. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:59 PM, James wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Bill Crisp > wrote: > > > > Unfortunately I tried to put the code from the patch in place but there > > seems to be some missing functions in the header file an

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-07-18 Thread Bill Crisp
12 at 6:11 PM, Xin Li wrote: > On 07/12/12 09:36, Bill Crisp wrote: > >> Good Morning! >> >> This was also posted to the FreeBSD forums: >> >> I have been researching CVE-2012-0217 and while I have patched the kernels >> on servers with 7.3/8.2 tha

CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-07-12 Thread Bill Crisp
Good Morning! This was also posted to the FreeBSD forums: I have been researching CVE-2012-0217 and while I have patched the kernels on servers with 7.3/8.2 that I have, I would like to see if anyone knows for sure if 6.2/6.3 are also vulnerable? I am aware that those kernels are out of support f