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More articles on MeltdownPrime & SpectrePrime
1. Gizmodo: Researchers Find New Ways to Exploit Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities in Modern CPUs
2. Engadget: Researchers discover new ways to abuse Meltdown and Spectre flaws
3. TechRadar: New Meltdown and Spectre exploits have been built, but aren’t in the wild… yet
1. Gizmodo: Researchers Find New Ways to Exploit Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities in Modern CPUs
2. Engadget: Researchers discover new ways to abuse Meltdown and Spectre flaws
3. TechRadar: New Meltdown and Spectre exploits have been built, but aren’t in the wild… yet
New Meltdown and Spectre exploits have been built, but aren’t in the wild… yet
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Before we get too carried away with the potential dangers here, it’s important to clarify that no code for these exploits has been released, so there’s no imminent risk. That said, if the good guys have cooked up a successful exploit, the bad guys out there may well be on the brink of doing so as well.
The other positive point is that the current patches underway for Meltdown and Spectre are likely to protect against these (and other potential) exploits. Of course, we’re still waiting for an official patch from Intel, with only Skylake machines having received a revamped Spectre patch (following stability issues with the previous fix) last week.
What’s more worrying, however, is that the researchers suggest that processor manufacturers might be in trouble when it comes to making hardware changes to try to guarantee immunity from these flaws going forward.
In other words, these issues are so deeply embedded in the silicon of contemporary processors, that getting rid of them completely – and covering all bases of all potential exploits therein – may be extremely difficult.
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