Security News > 2018 > July > Intel Pays $100,000 Bounty for New Spectre Variants
2018-07-11 05:13
Researchers have discovered new variations of the Spectre attack and they received $100,000 from Intel through the company’s bug bounty program. The new flaws are variations of Spectre Variant 1 (CVE-2017-5753) and they are tracked as Spectre 1.1 (CVE-2018-3693) and Spectre 1.2. read more
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| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-10 | CVE-2018-3693 | Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a speculative buffer overflow and side-channel analysis. | 5.6 |
| 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. | 5.6 |