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And, 17 hours later, we now know that there were three distinct vulnerabilities, of which one applies to AMD. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/re
by thehardsphere 9y ago
And, 17 hours later, we now know that there were three distinct vulnerabilities, of which one applies to AMD.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...
- betterunix2 9y agoOnly under specific software configurations that are not enabled by default, or confined to a userspace single process (which is bad for web browsers running Javascript but not nearly as bad as the Intel-specific attacks). So while AMD is somewhat vulnerable, the most severe and easiest to exploit vulnerabilities are pretty specific to Intel. In a pedantic sense you were right, AMD chips are affected, but it is literally not on the same level as for Intel chips.