CVE-2008-7096 Information

Description

Intel Desktop and Intel Mobile Boards with BIOS firmware DQ35JO DQ35MP DP35DP DG33FB DG33BU DG33TL MGM965TW D945GCPE and DX38BT allows local administrators with ring 0 privileges to gain additional privileges and modify code that is running in System Management Mode or access hypervisory memory as demonstrated at Black Hat 2008 by accessing certain remapping registers in Xen 3.3.

Reference

http://invisiblethingslab.com/bh08/part2-full.pdf http://osvdb.org/49901 http://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00017&languageid=en-fr http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/attacking-xen-domu-vs-dom0.html http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2008/08/intel-patches-q35-bug.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30823 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44676