[afnog] Security Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

Philip Paeps philip at trouble.is
Thu Jan 4 19:04:38 UTC 2018


On 2018-01-04 17:30:37 (+0100), Laszlo Hanyecz wrote:
> On 2018-01-04 13:27, Patrick Lufundisu wrote:
>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
>> https://security.googleblog.com/
>> https://meltdownattack.com/
>>
>> Happy new year 2018
>
> CERT recommends replacing the CPU to fix these issues.  Is everyone 
> frantically ripping CPUs out of servers/routers right now?

It's not as if there are many (any?) non-vulnerable CPUs out there.  
None you'd want to run in production anyway.

Philip

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