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AMD users running Windows 10 get their Spectre fix
2018-04-12 18:25

AMD has released new microcode updates for mitigating variant 2 of the Spectre attack and Microsoft has released an OS update with the mitigation to AMD users running Windows 10. As you might remember, AMD processors were found not to be vulnerable to Meltdown attacks, but they were affected by Spectre (both variants). Variant 1 necessitates application-level fixes and variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715) requires changes at the OS level. Microsoft fixes problem for Windows 10 users … More → The post AMD users running Windows 10 get their Spectre fix 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

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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
AMD 821 5 111 109 26 251