Microsoft's Meltdown patch has opened an even bigger security hole on Windows 7, allowing any user-level application to read content from the operating system's kernel, and even write data to kernel memory.
Swedish IT security expert Ulf Frisk made the discovery earlier this month while working on PCILeech, a device he created a few years back for carrying out Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks and dumping protected OS memory.
Yes, that was mentioned in the bleeping computer article
I believe MS has issued another patch to correct this. If I'm mistaken please advise. Cheers
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-1038