Hate to ruin your day, but... Boffins cook up fresh Meltdown, Spectre CPU design flaw exploits

Hate to ruin your day, but... Boffins cook up fresh Meltdown, Spectre CPU design flaw exploits

6 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/14/meltdown_spectre_exploit_variants/

When details of the Meltdown and Spectre CPU security vulnerabilities emerged last month, the researchers involved hinted that further exploits may be developed beyond the early proof-of-concept examples.

It didn't take long. In a research paper – "MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols" – out this month, bit boffins from Princeton University and chip designer Nvidia describe variants of Meltdown and Spectre exploit code that can be used to conduct side-channel timing attacks.