The 2016 Pwnie Nominee For Best Privilege Escalation Bug

AMD Piledriver Microcode VM Ring 3 to Host Ring 0

Credit: Robert Swiecki

This bug is just too much of a magical unicorn to be sullied by something as basic as a CVE. A subsequent software update to affected CPUs fixed the vulnerability. Just read that sentence again and realize what a weird world we live in now. I can’t wait until we have OTA updates for microcode in chips that we didn’t even know existed.

AMD Piledriver Microcode VM Ring 3 to Host Ring 0