Sentences with phrase «variants of meltdown»

The researchers were able to create new variants of Meltdown and Spectre with a separate class of cache timing side - channel attack known as Prime + Probe, described in 2015 by several of the researchers who found Meltdown and Spectre independently of Google's Project Zero.

Not exact matches

Its chief U.S. competitor, AMD, which has been gaining ground on Intel, said in a blog post that its chips are not vulnerable to Meltdown and there is a «near zero risk» from one variant of Spectre and zero risk from another.

After a few months, they found a solution for Meltdown and the first variant of Spectre (two of the three vulnerabilities), which they then started rolling out way back in September.

Google wants the whole industry to adopt its Retpoline fixes for Variant 2 of the Meltdown - Spectre bugs.

While Meltdown is being taken care of with software updates, processor redesigns are required to to protect against Spectre variants.

Of the three side - channel attacks making up Spectre and Meltdown, the first Spectre vulnerability variant has essentially been patched via software.

The updates address Variant 2 of the three Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws that Google revealed on January 3 and are released to end - users as firmware or BIOS updates from hardware manufacturers.

While software patches already protected computer configurations with Intel Core chips against Meltdown variant 1, upcoming generations of processors will include higher protection built - in.

In addition to this, the company's CEO announced new, redesigned processor lines that will start shipping later this year and will include hardware - based protection for Meltdown (exploiting CVE -2017-5754, a rogue cata cache load flaw) and variant 2 of Spectre (exploiting CVE -2017-5715, a branch target injection vulnerability).