ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs

Re:ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Inte... by p1necone on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @06:27PM (#19914434)

I'm sure I remember a post on here (or possibly /r/programming) a couple of years ago from an Intel employee mentioning that Intel was cutting a lot of QA staff, and that we should expect more bugs in the future. I could be imagining things though.

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Re:ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Inte... by ahartmetz on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:23PM (#19914827)

I remember a leak about a call to become "more agile" like some ARM designers, implying less time spent on verification.

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Re:ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Inte... by redrabbyte on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @07:48PM (#19924896)

verification wouldn't catch any of this, the processors operate correctly on an architectural level

most of this seems to be behaving as intended, they just didn't foresee the side channels this opens up

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