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Deja-woooo: Intel, AMD chips running Windows potentially vulnerable to scary Spectre variant
2019-08-06 23:01

SWAPGS attack can leak sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution that was disclosed last year and affects various vendors' chips – has a new sibling that bypasses previous mitigations.…


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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Intel 6314 31 755 708 45 1539
AMD 892 5 120 122 27 274