Retbleed: Your x86 Speculative Attack Du Jour
"Today Intel released two security advisories addressing 2 medium severity vulnerabilities reported by academic researchers from ETH Zurich who have labeled their side-channel attack as “Retbleed” due to finding a method to potentially bypass a commonly used mitigation technique known as retpoline." That's what Intel said on their blog but the Ars Technica article sure makes this sound more serious than "medium". Accord...
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