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Where is that AMD quote from? The "As shown" text does not appear on that web page. In the Meltdown paper, the authors report that they couldn't yet make the p
by zurn 9y ago
Where is that AMD quote from? The "As shown" text does not appear on that web page.
In the Meltdown paper, the authors report that they couldn't yet make the proof-of-concept exploit work on AMD or ARM, despite having confirmed the general vulnerability on those processors. So based on current knowledge, AMD and ARM are vulnerable to Meltdown with quite a high probability.
- nukeop 9y agoMeltdown exploits Intel's branch predictor behavior which is not present in other manufacturers' CPUs.
- zurn 9y agoDepends on what you mean by Meltdown. The paper defines Meltdown ambigiously, the author variously refer to the Meltdown attack, the Meltdown exploit (= PoC), the Meltdown bug (= vulnerability). The current PoC created by the researchers doesn't work on other manufacturer's CPU's, but the vulnerability and the Meltdown class of attacks should work on other manufacturer's CPUs. Or at least we don't know any reason it shouldn't. The authors' "toy example" works on AMD and ARM too. (See the section 6.4 in the paper).