This paper provides an overview of a new hardware security feature introduced by Intel and covers its support on Windows 8. Among the other common features it complicates vulnerability exploitation on a target system. But if these features are not properly configured all of them may become useless. This paper demonstrates a security flaw on x86 version of Windows 8 leading to a bypass of the SMEP security feature.
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