Security News > 2018 > January > Meltdown and Spectre: Data theft hardware bugs affect most modern CPUs
2018-01-04 20:31
In the wake of yesterday’s news and speculation about a serious design flaw in Intel processors, the security researchers involved in discovering the issue and the companies affected have started releasing details about it and about their mitigation efforts. As it turns out, there are two separate attacks that can result in exploitation of different issues: Meltdown – exploits CVE-2017-5754, and can lead to rogue data cache load Spectre – exploits CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715, and … More →
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| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-04 | CVE-2017-5715 | Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in multiple products Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis. | 1.9 |
| 2018-01-04 | CVE-2017-5753 | Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in multiple products Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis. | 4.7 |
| 2018-01-04 | CVE-2017-5754 | Information Exposure vulnerability in multiple products Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis of the data cache. | 4.7 |