Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:54 AM
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SecuriTeam™ - Xbox 360 Hypervisor Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Now this was something I wasn't expecting to see..
Xbox 360 Hypervisor Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
1 Mar. 2007
Summary
It has been discovered that a vulnerability in the Xbox 360 hypervisor allows privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full hardware access.
Credit:
The information has been provided by anonhacker.
Source: SecuriTeam™ - Xbox 360 Hypervisor Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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