> Huge. IOPL 3 is just user mode with full access to the hardware, but
> not, for example, to kernel memory.
[Good to see, that my memory was right :) ]
So it can still crash the system, and can modify the kernel memory
indirectly, for example by telling some IO port programmable device to
DMA to kernel memory.
Andreas
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