Researcher to demonstrate attack code for Intel chips

[Lagerlout666]

Now i know this part of the news is usually for p2p related stuff etc but i cam accross this and well its sorta got me spooked

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/14/Researcher_to_demonstrate_attack_code_for_Intel_chips_1.html

Security researcher and author Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how an attacker can target flaws in Intel's microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running.

Im trully amazed by this, i never thought that someone could take advantages in flaws in my hardware, kaspersky is a antivirus vendor i use and nad have done for a along time, its reasuring to know he is intrested in these things, i also use a AMD processor but its got me thinking are thie any vunerabiltys with that that. Lets hope they keep an eye on this as they have done against the usual run on the mill virus's and worms.

[White Stripes]

F00F, FDIV, COMA (look these up on the wikipedia)... there have been lots of bugs in various cpus over the years... each possible to cause a freeze or crash but ive never heard of one that lets someone remotely inject asm and run it... ...but my gut says the OSes will eventually be patched for the new bug(s?) like they have for the others...

EDIT:

The proof-of-concept attacks will show how processor bugs, called errata, can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and a knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler.

(emphasis mine)

theres how they are getting around the variances in operating systems.... using the environment of Java's JIT compiler (which is basically an OS in of itself)... i knew the 'OS independant' thing seemed a bit fishy...

[SamSeeSam]

heh first time I heard of hardware bugs....
heard of problems like improper execution, and other things but never this..