[OT] Microsoft Windows NT #GP Trap Handler Allows Users to Switch Kernel Stack
Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]>
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[http://blog.cr0.org/2010/01/cve-2010-0232-microsoft-windows-nt-gp.html] ===== Thursday, January 21, 2010 CVE-2010-0232: Microsoft Windows NT #GP Trap Handler Allows Users to Switch Kernel Stack Two days ago, Tavis Ormandy has published one of the most interesting vulnerabilities I've seen so far. It's one of those rare, but fascinating design-level errors dealing with low-level system internals. Its exploitation requires skills and ingenuity. The vulnerability lies in Windows' support for Intel's hardware 8086 emulation support (virtual-8086, or VM86) and is believed to have been there since Windows NT 3.1 (1993!), making it 17 years old. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]