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

[James]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Bill Crisp <bcrisp at crispernetworks.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately I tried to put the code from the patch in place but there
> seems to be some missing functions in the header file and too many
> arguments to a function and some other errors below:

    Hi Bill. Yes, the patch for >= FreeBSD 7 won't apply directly to
    6. ksi and the refined SIGBUS traps don't exist yet. Here's how I
    fixed it at work. Using this on multiple releng_6* branches.

    HTH!

-- 
James.
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