GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs

[sophisticles]

As i said in the comments section of other articles where some new hardware vulnerability was found, it doesn't really matter and I wouldn't enable the "fix" anyway.

The reality is you could run any OS you want, any you want, wide open, with no security mitigations at all and still be 100% safe if your network is properly designed.

These vulnerabilities are all theoretical, show me a single one that can bypass a firewall or switch that is running a bare bones OS like Nano Server or a stripped down Linux or BSD kernel with a read only file system and a properly configured ACL.

I'm glad that the kernel developers and hardware vendors seem to be finally waking up.

[Old Grouch]

The reality is you could run any OS you want, any you want, wide open, with no security mitigations at all and still be 100% safe if your network is properly designed.

I will quote the Spartan ephors: "If..."

[yump]

As always, the important questions that don't seem to be answered are:

1. What is the leak rate in bytes/s?

2. Can this be used to read dm_crypt keys?

[M@GOid]

Vulnerability name made me think of The Wraith. Anybody remember that movie?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0092240/

I do. But I only watched it once a couple decades ago on TV.