alt Hacker NewsYeah, they're not saying a lot there. And then the proof of concept code is just being passed the physical addresses of the pages they talk about as command line args, and is just opening /dev/mem to do brain surgery on them.
Which like, isn't really a proof of concept of anything being described.
"That was always allowed".
It's a super good bug! I just don't follow the exploitation details all the way. I know more than one cloud provider panic-bounced their fleet in response to it, and I think that was the right call.