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Re:Escalation of Privilege Advisory by filomeno on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:12AM (#14245684)
From my understanding, this exploit can work regardless of the operating system. I mean, if this Intel hardware can get network packets without the operating system being aware, then not having those modules loaded won't help.
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Re:Escalation of Privilege Advisory by efm on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:15PM (#14250686)
Correct. This is only to close the local exploit route.
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Re:Escalation of Privilege Advisory by mirimir on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:56PM (#14251003)
Right. And in my case, also no vPro on the CPU.
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