SMM Lock Bypass

AMD ID: AMD-SB-7014 Potential Impact: Arbitrary Code Execution Severity: High Summary Researchers from IOActive have reported that it may be possible for an attacker with ring 0 access to modify the configuration of System Management Mode SMM even when SMM Lock is enabled...

Driver-Based Attacks: Past and Present

"People that write Ring 0 code and write it badly are a danger to society." - Mickey Shkatov There is no security boundary between an administrator and the Windows kernel, according to the Microsoft Security Servicing Criteria for Windows. In our analysis of CVE-2021-21551, a write-what-where...