Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities of 2018
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In January of 2018, news of three speculative execution vulnerabilities was made public.
CVE | Group |
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CVE-2017-5715 | Spectre |
CVE-2017-5753 | Spectre |
CVE-2017-5754 | Meltdown |
At this time we know that POWER9, POWER8, POWER8E, POWER7+, POWER6, and certain PowerPC architectures are affected. [1][2][3]
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References
- ↑ IBM PSIRT Blog post, Potential Impact on Processors in the POWER family
- ↑ TenFourFox Development blog post, Actual field testing of Spectre on various Power Macs
- ↑ Raptor Engineering GNU Social notices about POWER8 and POWER9 vulnerability