Re:Escalation of Privilege Advisory
by wtallis on Monday May 01, 2017 @08:19PM
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You're possibly thinking of microcode for the x86 CPU.
This vulnerability is in code running on an entirely different processor that resides in the PCH on the motherboard and is initialized from the flash ROM on the motherboard long before any OS boots on the x86 CPU.
This vulnerability is in code running on an entirely different processor that resides in the PCH on the motherboard and is initialized from the flash ROM on the motherboard long before any OS boots on the x86 CPU.