Downfall Vulnerability Affects Millions of Intel CPUs With Strong Data Leak ... meant to speed up accessing scattered data in memory, leaks the content of the internal vector register file during ...

Well this is bad. “Downfall” is the name Daniel Moghimi, a security expert at Google, has given to a new vulnerability he has discovered in several generations of Intel processors. Attackers ...

Sandro Rüegge, Johannes Wikner, and Kaveh Razavi, the researchers behind the paper, named the vulnerabilities Branch Prediction Race Conditions (BPRC), and claim it only works on Intel’s ...

He writes that it is caused by memory optimization features in Intel processors ... which leaks data to untrusted code exploiting Gather." This is the second major vulnerability we've seen in ...

Intel documentation has revealed additional code names in the context of the company’s future roadmap: Wildcat Lake, Bartlett ...

A new "Branch Privilege Injection" flaw in all modern Intel CPUs allows attackers to leak sensitive data from memory regions ... of transient execution vulnerabilities.” - Intel spokesperson ...

Reports claim this version of OpenSSL carries a memory corruption vulnerability ... Zen CPUs can be "jailbroken" Intel still vulnerable to Spectre data-leak vulnerabilities, researchers say ...

The vulnerability affects Intel, IBM, and a limited number ... to Meltdown in that it can be used to leak sensitive secrets from protected memory regions across security boundaries.

Intel’s latest generation of CPUs contains a vulnerability that ... that allow leaking data held in memory and registers. We demonstrate how ÆPIC Leak completely breaks the guarantees provided ...

A pair of vulnerabilities have been discovered impacting Intel and AMD CPUs ... meant to speed up accessing scattered data in memory, leaks the content of the internal vector register file ...

When properly exploited, the vulnerabilities could allow a malicious actor to access sensitive user data stored in protected memory, though Intel notes that sensitive data cannot be modified or ...

The new class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors arises from speculative technologies that anticipate individual computing steps. Openings enable gradual reading of entire privilege memory ...