Security News > 2018 > March > New Intel processors to have hardware-based protections against Meltdown, Spectre 2
2018-03-19 20:03
Intel has officially pushed out microcode updates with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations for all of the processors it launched in the past five years. 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). New silicon, new hardware protections … More → The post New Intel processors to have hardware-based protections against Meltdown, Spectre 2 appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Related Vulnerability
| 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. | 5.6 |
| 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. | 5.6 |