Computer security compromised by hardware failure: Difference between revisions

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==== Privilege escalation ====

{{See also|Hardware backdoor}}

A simple and generic processor backdoor can be used by attackers as a means to privilege escalation to get to privileges equivalent to those of any given running operating system.<ref name="Dufl21">[[#Dufl2|Duflot, 2008, p.1]]</ref> Also, a non-privileged process of one of the non-privileged invited ___domain running on top of a virtual machine monitor can get to privileges equivalent to those of the virtual machine monitor.<ref name="Dufl21"/>