New Meltdown and Spectre exploits have been built, but aren’t in the wild… yet

New Meltdown and Spectre exploits have been built, but aren’t in the wild… yet

6 years ago
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http://www.techradar.com/news/new-meltdown-and-spectre-exploits-have-been-built-but-arent-in-the-wild-yet

We heard last month that white hat security researchers could be close to engineering a usable exploit for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, and this has now actually happened.

Security experts from Nvidia and Princeton University have authored a new research paper which details ‘MeltdownPrime’ and ‘SpectrePrime’, exploits which leverage these gaping flaws in modern processors via side-channel timing attacks.

New Meltdown and Spectre exploits have been built, but aren’t in the wild… yet

Feb 15, 2018, 2:14pm UTC
http://www.techradar.com/news/new-meltdown-and-spectre-exploits-have-been-built-but-arent-in-the-wild-yet >We heard last month that white hat security researchers could be close to engineering a usable exploit for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, and this has now actually happened. >Security experts from Nvidia and Princeton University have authored a new research paper which details ‘MeltdownPrime’ and ‘SpectrePrime’, exploits which leverage these gaping flaws in modern processors via side-channel timing attacks.