Computer scientists at ETH Zurich have uncovered a serious flaw in Intel processors that could let attackers steal sensitive ...

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 ...

A scary vulnerability ... the Gather Instruction in Intel chips, which normally helps the CPU quickly access various data spread all over different parts of its memory. However, with the flaw ...

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 ...

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 ...

Downfall is the most recent of a long series of security vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors during ... The "Gather" AVX CPU instruction leaks the content of the internal vector ...

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.