Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
by cthalupa on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:10AM
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>Pretty hard to have a neighbor vm execute Spectre on your same physical server if you have dedicated hardware.
You have no reason to care about a neighbor VM executing Spectre on the same physical server, since they're only hurting themselves, not you.
>Add in that Spectre specifically is a js bug so in order to be vulnerable your server would need to execute untrusted JavaScript and I think we can assume the threat surface of this specific bug is smaller outside the cloud...
You have no reason to care about a neighbor VM executing Spectre on the same physical server, since they're only hurting themselves, not you.
>Add in that Spectre specifically is a js bug so in order to be vulnerable your server would need to execute untrusted JavaScript and I think we can assume the threat surface of this specific bug is smaller outside the cloud...
"Spectre specifically is a js bug"