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Software mitigation for variant 3a (rogue system register read) and variant 4 (speculative store bypass)
AFAIK, all mitigable meltdown / spectre variants have software mitigation except for variant 3a and 4. Why is this the case?
For variant 4, a straightforward software mitigation is to place lfence ...
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Are new AMD processors more secure than Intel ones?
Since the discovery of Meltdown and Spectre, CPU security has been compromised and trust to the main manufacturers reduced, particularly Intel. 8 months later I wonder, what CPUs are more secure at ...
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What is the attack vector for CVE-2018-3639 Speculative Store Bypass?
We use Web Application deployed on a CentOS server.
Can the attack will be performed via a browser?
Or the attacker need a physical access to the CentOS server?
I cannot understand the attack vector ...
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