Overview of Meltdown and Spectre CPU issues

Overview of Meltdown and Spectre CPU issues

Meltdown and Spectre – current overview The out-of-order execution features of processors, together with speculated execution and lacking permission checking recently lead to new two major classes of side channel attacks that could leak privileged information. The core issue is that some side effects of out-of-order execution are not being rolled back fully when the […]
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