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Guru3D.com » News » Researchers Find Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks

Researchers Find Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/19/2018 10:39 AM | source: zdnet | 32 comment(s)
Researchers Find Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks

And they keep on coming, no less than Seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks affecting AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs were revealed by researchers this week. These include Meltdown-BR, which exploits an x86 bound instruction on Intel and AMD processors, and Meltdown-PK, which bypasses memory protection keys on Intel CPUs. ARM and Intel have already acknowledged the researchers' findings.

Researchers say they've discovered the seven new CPU attacks while performing "a sound and extensible systematization of transient execution attacks" -- a catch-all term the research team used to describe attacks on the various internal mechanisms that a CPU uses to process data, such as the speculative execution process, the CPU's internal caches, and other internal execution stages. The team, which partly consists of people who were already involved in the 'original' Specter / Meltdown research, has published a paper  (pdf) in which it explains the new vulnerabilities.

There are two new Meltdown bugs, the other five are Specter variants. The research team says they've successfully demonstrated all seven attacks with proof-of-concept code. Experiments to confirm six other Meltdown-attacks did not succeed, according to a graph published by researchers.



Researchers Find Seven New Meltdown and Spectre Attacks




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Amx85
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#5608672 Posted on: 11/19/2018 02:05 PM
No no no no xD

fantaskarsef
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#5608673 Posted on: 11/19/2018 02:06 PM
These issues won't disappear in the years to come....

alanm
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#5608676 Posted on: 11/19/2018 02:11 PM
These issues won't disappear in the years to come....

Yep, will always be something new. Even if spectre/meltdown resolved, something else will come along.

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#5608678 Posted on: 11/19/2018 02:18 PM
Well, at least they're brand-agnostic ;)

fantaskarsef
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#5608681 Posted on: 11/19/2018 02:20 PM
Yep, will always be something new. Even if spectre/meltdown resolved, something else will come along.


Exactly. And Meltdown / Spetre are also here to stay as long as speculative execution / prefetching of certain things is a thing.

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