Ha. Who needs Meltdown when the Windows 7 kernel just gave every userspace process writable page tables? "Oops." http://blog.frizk.net/2018/03/total-meltdown.html …
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Worth pointing out the note at the end, that he discovered it after it had already been patched. It's pretty freaking bad, yeah, but its not like it was being exploited in the wild before fix, which is always a good thing to remember.
This is one of those cases where the important thing is not the actual problem (which is pretty bad in and of itself) but *how* it happened. There's clearly a QA failure here at some point.
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Oh yeah, no doubt, but on the bright side it was also self-caught, which is a plus for MS's red team, at least? Idk, this was a major flaw and I'm just trying to let myself pretend there's some good in the horror :/
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To their credit, they didn't immediately start blocking anyone who pointed it out or liked a tweet pointing it out (yes, shots fired).
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