Re: [aadams () securityfocus com: Linux Kernel <= 2.4.21 MXCSR Local DOS Exploitation]

[Thilo Schulz <arny () ats s bawue de>]

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On Friday 21 November 2003 01:10, David Ahmad wrote:
> Starting with the P3, Intel processors included SSE support which amongst
> many other things added the MXCSR register to handle SSE status and
> control information (and various behavioral flags). MXCSR is a 32-bit
> register, the MSB 16-bits of which are reserved. Intel specifies that if
> these reserved bits are written to a general protection fault (#GP) will
> occur.

An interesting question is: does this problem apply to AMD Processors as well 
if /proc/cpuinfo has sse included in the cpuflags?
Anyone able to clear this issue up?

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 - Thilo Schulz

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