Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings
by BuildTheRobots on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:49PM
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Ah, it must be serious, there's now a branded website [1] for it ;)
I believe the Intel only issue is called "Meltdown" and the second is called "Spectre"; the attack website [1] has details of both.
Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings
by smaddox on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:46PM
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Reading the Meltdown paper [1], it's not clear why I keep seeing people say it's Intel only. The paper says quite clearly that other vendors' processors could be affected:
"Instead, Meltdown exploits side-channel information available on most modern processors, e.g., modern Intel microarchitectures since 2010 and potentially on other CPUs of other vendors."
Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings
by pksadiq on Thursday January 04, 2018 @12:08AM
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> "Instead, Meltdown exploits side-channel information available on most modern processors, e.g., modern Intel microarchitectures since 2010 and potentially on other CPUs of other vendors."
But their website faq says[0]: every Intel processor which implements out-of-order execution is potentially affected, which is effectively every processor since 1995 (except Intel Itanium and Intel Atom before 2013). .... Currently, we have only verified Meltdown on Intel processors....
Another is harder to exploit, and has no known workaround (likely requiring new silicon to fix), and affects basically all micro-architectures in use today, including AMD's x86 silicon.
The third, I know nothing of.