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

[Oliver Pinter]

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?
>
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