{"id":145,"date":"2006-05-15T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T13:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=145"},"modified":"2006-05-22T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T18:52:47","slug":"x86-vulnerable-by-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/05\/15\/x86-vulnerable-by-design\/","title":{"rendered":"x86,  vulnerable by design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/columnists\/402?ref=rss\">The quest for ring 0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All x86 CPUs in modern systems (Intel, AMD, etc.) have a feature that could be exploited on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-security.org\/news.php?id=11246\">some operating systems<\/a> to take total control of that system.  Interestingly, modern versions of Windows actually aren&#8217;t vulnerable to this type of attack because of their implementation of a hardware abstraction layer or HAL.  There are also ways to harden other OSs against this sort of attack, but it&#8217;s more a matter of mitigation than prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quest for ring 0 All x86 CPUs in modern systems (Intel, AMD, etc.) have a feature that could be exploited on some operating systems to take total control of that system. Interestingly, modern versions of Windows actually aren&#8217;t vulnerable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/05\/15\/x86-vulnerable-by-design\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}