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Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 3A 4-30

  4.6.1 Determination of Access Rights

  For user-mode accesses:
  — Data reads.
  Access rights depend on the mode of the linear address:
    ...
    • Data may not be read from any supervisor-mode address.


And this contradicts the above how, exactly?


> And this contradicts the above how, exactly?

Documentation: Data may not be read from any supervisor-mode address.

Published vulnerability: Data may be read from any supervisor-mode address.




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