Security News > 2015 > August > Linux kernel privilege escalation due to nested NMIs interrupting espfix64 - affecting version 3.13 and newer (Reddit)

2015-08-05 00:18
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http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3ft847/linux_kernel_privilege_escalation_due_to_nested/
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