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From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:26:33PM +0000, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
> IV.  Workaround
> 
> No workaround is available.
> 
> However FreeBSD/amd64 running on AMD CPUs is not vulnerable to this
> particular problem.
> 
> Systems with 64 bit capable CPUs, but running the 32 bit FreeBSD/i386
> kernel are not vulnerable, nor are systems running on different
> processor architectures.

I found these last two paragraphs a little confusing.  Is the correct
interpretation that FreeBSD/amd64 running on Intel CPUs is the vulnerable
combination?

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