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At this time we know that [[POWER9|POWER9]], [[POWER8|POWER8]], [[POWER8E|POWER8E]], POWER7+, POWER6, and certain PowerPC architectures are affected. <ref>IBM PSIRT Blog post, [https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/potential-impact-processors-power-family/ Potential Impact on Processors in the POWER family]</ref><ref>TenFourFox Development blog post, [https://tenfourfox.blogspot.co.at/2018/01/actual-field-testing-of-spectre-on.html Actual field testing of Spectre on various Power Macs]</ref><ref>Raptor Engineering GNU Social [https://social.raptorengineering.io/conversation/731 notices about POWER8 and POWER9 vulnerability]</ref>
  
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
  
 
* Websites for [https://meltdownattack.com/ Meltdown] and [https://spectreattack.com/ Spectre] are currently the same
 
* Websites for [https://meltdownattack.com/ Meltdown] and [https://spectreattack.com/ Spectre] are currently the same
* IBM PSIRT Blog post [https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/potential-impact-processors-power-family/ Potential Impact on Processors in the POWER family]
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* Raptor Engineering GNU Social [https://social.raptorengineering.io/conversation/731 notices about POWER vulnerability]
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== References ==
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Revision as of 00:12, 9 January 2018

In January of 2018, news of three speculative execution vulnerabilities was made public.

CVE Group
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]

External Links

References