On Saturday, IOActive’s Principal Security Consultant Enrique Nissim and Associate Principal Security Consultant Krzysztof Okupski delivered vulnerability research in a presentation titled AMD Sinkclose: Universal Ring-2 Privilege.
What just happened? Security researchers at this year’s Def Con have presented findings regarding a long-standing albeit recently discovered vulnerability in AMD processors called “Sinkclose.” Though rather hard to exploit, the security flaw can potentially yield catastrophic results for any system unlucky enough to fall victim to it.
On Saturday, IOActive’s Principal Security Consultant Enrique Nissim and Associate Principal Security Consultant Krzysztof Okupski delivered vulnerability research in a presentation titled AMD Sinkclose: Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation. According to the team’s presentation, its team noticed a flaw in one of the components required to secure an execution mode known as System Management Mode. This mode provides attackers access to a highly versatile and powerful execution method.
