Intel hardware bug

[John-Mark Gurney]

Freddie Cash wrote this message on Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 11:53 -0800:
> Spectre (aka CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753) is the issue that affects all
> CPUs (Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM, Oracle, etc) and allows userland processes to
> read memory assigned to other userland processes (but does NOT give access
> to kernel memory).

No, Spectre does not allow one userland process to read another userland
process's memory..  It allows an attacker to read any memory within the
same process..

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