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		vardump on June 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege Es... The worst case is a VM escape for hardware accelerated (VT-x/AMD-V). So does this exploit work under virtualized ring 0? That would be a disaster for many cloud providers and for virtualization in general. Maybe this is something about controlled change of flow of execution in SMM mode?

tptacek on June 5, 2015 [–]

My guess is that if you have a universal hardware hypervisor escape, you write the abstract for that talk much differently.

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