Security flaw in Intel x64 cpus

[Gman1979]

http://www.csoonline.com/article/708568/us-cert-discloses-security-flaw-in-intel-chips

""Some 64-bit operating systems and virtualization software running on Intel CPU hardware are vulnerable to a local privilege escalation attack," the US-CERT advisory says. "The vulnerability may be exploited for local privilege escalation or a guest-to-host virtual machine escape."

Hope this is fixable with just a microcode update. Otherwise this might hurt their enterprise sales quite a bit if left unresolved.

 

[Elledan]

There's something ironic in Intel failing to properly duplicate AMD technology

 

[Gman1979]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS12-042

That's the link to Microsoft's bulletin on the matter along with the links to the security patches for the matter. Surprisingly, Microsoft's patches for it cover a much wider range of software than the CERT bulletin named as being vulnerable.