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New flaw in Intel processors can be exploited in a similar way to Spectre

New flaw in Intel processors can be exploited in a similar way to Spectre

5 years ago
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https://www.techradar.com/news/new-flaw-in-intel-processors-can-be-exploited-in-a-similar-way-to-spectre

A new security vulnerability has been found in Intel’s family of Core processors, along similar lines of the major Spectre bug that has been making headlines all year. Thankfully, this one appears to be less severe – and is already patched in modern versions of Windows and Linux.

The freshly-discovered hole is known as the ‘Lazy FP state restore’ bug, and like Spectre, it is a speculative execution side channel attack. Just a few weeks back, we were told to expect further spins on speculative execution attack vectors, and it seems this is one.