Spectre bug doesn’t just affect CPUs: Nvidia has patched its graphics cards

Spectre bug doesn’t just affect CPUs: Nvidia has patched its graphics cards

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The Meltdown and Spectre bugs caused some considerable panic as the New Year kicked off, and prepare yourself for another dollop of concern now, because the security flaws don’t just affect processors – given that Nvidia has just implemented patches for the vulnerabilities in its latest set of graphics drivers.

As ZDNet spotted, Nvidia noted that it wasn’t affected by Meltdown (which is specific to Intel’s processors), but that its GPUs were affected by the far more wide-ranging and problematic Spectre. The company issued a security bulletin stating that it is providing an “initial security update to mitigate aspects” of the latter. Further updates will follow.