ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers
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| An unpatched flaw in an ATI driver was at the center of the mysterious Purple
| Pill proof-of-concept tool that exposed a way to maliciously tamper with the
| Windows Vista kernel.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=438
The following looks like a joke from the INQ:
Linux viruses beat AV tools
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41628
Related:
Graphics drivers are malware compliant
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| Whilst Microsoft claimed to have closed off that exploit for the final
| release of Vista, there are still plenty of ways to attack Windows Vista and
| install malicious rootkits, which her presentation yesterday proved. By using
| the Nvidia driver as a proxy for writing code to the kernel, she showed how a
| rootkit was able to bypass Vista's kernel protection system, which claims to
| prevent unsigned and unreliable code causing problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41440
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