Re: Don't miss this patch: Bad Intel drivers give hackers a backdoor to the Windows kernel
2019/11/13 05:37:44
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How about a New Thread ---> change the Title if you want
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"It is worth noting that these are not remotely exploitable flaws: hackers need to already be running code locally in order to get at the vulnerable drivers."
"Users and admins are advised to download and install patched versions of the drivers as soon as possible."
"Even after those Intel drivers are updated, the researchers say users will still be at risk from other drivers. One particularly dangerous example they noted was WinRing0, a component included with the OpenHardwareMonitor library. The driver is not only vulnerable to local elevation of privilege attacks, but is also commonly used by developers under more than two dozen different names."