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0 pointsdigikata8y ago0 comments

So there's a bit of an unknown if AMD's most recent generation of processor has the Spectre vulnerability?

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We know that the scariest attack "meltdown", cannot be reproduced on AMD or ARM chips at all[1]. The second attack "Spectre" is also greatly mitigated due the neural network predicting pathways for the application. Thus it's unlikely/less-likely that you'll be able to access other locations in memory[2]. However, it's definitely possible.

[1] https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf

[2] https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf

AnssiH8y ago

ARM advisory [1] does state that Cortex-A75 is vulnerable to variant 3 (Meltdown).

[1] https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

RandomBK8y ago

Has anyone tried the Spectre PoC in the paper on ThreadRipper? I can confirm it works on my i7-7700K.

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