Source : DailytechThere is a hot on-going discussion among developers regarding the recently released Core 2 Duo Errata document listing all known bugs affecting the desktop version of the Core 2 Duo. Some bugs can be fixed while most of them have no fix. So, how important and dangerous are those bugs?
According to Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD founder, this is a big issue:
These processors are buggy as hell, and some of these bugs dont just cause development/debugging problems, but will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from userland code Some of these are things that cannot be fixed in running code, and some are things that every operating system will do until about mid-2008, because that is how the MMU has always been managed on all generations of Intel/AMD/whoever else hardware."
According to Int