[TUHS] OT: critical Intel design flaw

Andy Kosela akosela at andykosela.com
Wed Jan 3 17:53:56 AEST 2018


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/

Including here as it concerns Unix kernel and leaking memory from kernel
space to userland.

This is big -- it appears this is a fundamental Intel bug that exists in
all x86_64 CPUs.

It will be interesting to watch the ramifications and impact of this on the
industry as a whole.

--Andy
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