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A comment on “Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from userland code” (2007).

Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by nmjohn on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:05AM (#16076685)
The linked intel erata pdf file is 404'ing, but I think this [0] matches if you are curious about this line:

> Note that some errata like AI65, AI79, AI43, AI39, AI90, AI99 scare the hell out of us.

[0]: http://download.intel.com/design/processor/specupdt/313279.p...

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Re:“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from use... by buryat on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:46AM (#16076817)
ugh, I checked some of them, and most of them suggest accessing protected memory.

I believe that Intel didn't believe that these bugs suggest a fundamental issue that can be exploited, until Google Project Zero created a working exploit.

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