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

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 02:23:02AM +0200, Oliver Pinter wrote:
> On 6/14/12, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> 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?
> 
> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/byvendor?searchview&Query=FIELD+Reference=649219&SearchOrder=4

Thanks :).  That was much clearer.

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