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AMD products are not susceptible to SPOILER exploit
- xemdetia 8y agoTitle would be improved by adding reference to SPOILER. There's too many processor vulnerabilities bouncing around right now.
- sctb 8y agoAdded. Thanks!
- spamizbad 8y agoI'd wait for a 3rd party to confirm this.
- mfoy_ 8y agoI think it's safe to say that if the processors do not use partial address matches above address bit 11 when resolving load conflicts then they would not be vulnerable to an exploit which can gain access to partial address information above address bit 11 during load operations.
- runeks 8y agoThe paper, from the authors that found SPOILER, already states they were unable to exploit AMD processors: “The analyzed ARM and AMD processors do not show similar behaviour”. [1] [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00446.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00446.pdf
- geezerjay 8y agoFTA AMD confirms nothing. It just states that the company believes it's not vulnerable to the SPOILER vulnerability due to AMD's processor architecture. Mods, could you please fix the title? Not only does the article confirm nothing but it's also specific to a single vulnerabilty.
- pornel 8y ago"doesn't have the vulnerability" is an unfalsifiable claim, so the onus is on researchers to prove that it does have the vulnerability.
- montalbano 8y agoUnfortunately the actual page's title is simply `SPOILER', so I did my best given the HN guidelines on titles. The mod-updated title also seems fair to me.
- geezerjay 8y agoThe very first sentence of the article is: "We are aware of the report of a new security exploit called SPOILER (...)"
- montalbano 8y agoI previously tried to post it with the exploit name included but it didn't show up on HN when I was logged out, neither did it show with a (dead) or (dupe) flag. I thus assumed that 'SPOILER' triggered a key word spam filter.