FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret

[Xin Li]

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On 06/13/12 15:37, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:26:33PM +0000, FreeBSD Security
> Advisories wrote:
>> IV.  Workaround
>> 
>> No workaround is available.
>> 
>> However FreeBSD/amd64 running on AMD CPUs is not vulnerable to
>> this particular problem.
>> 
>> Systems with 64 bit capable CPUs, but running the 32 bit
>> FreeBSD/i386 kernel are not vulnerable, nor are systems running
>> on different processor architectures.
> 
> I found these last two paragraphs a little confusing.  Is the
> correct interpretation that FreeBSD/amd64 running on Intel CPUs is
> the vulnerable combination?

Correct.

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	https://www.delphij.net/
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