CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <201207130831.59211.jhb at freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:

>Every FreeBSD/amd64 kernel in existent is vulnerable.  In truth, my personal 
>opinion is that Intel screwed up their implementation of that instruction 
>whereas AMD got it right, and we are merely working around Intel's CPU bug. :(

Given that the instruction set of AMD64 is defined by AMD originally,
while Intel was trying very hard to ram Itanic down everybodys
throat, that diagnosis is a given:  Intel copied AMD, and difference
in functionality is a screwup on Intels part, even if they documented
their screwup in their manual.

TL;DR: Which part of "compatible" doesn't Intel get ?

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