Security Researchers Detail New "BlindSide" Speculative Execution Attack

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Security Researchers Detail New "BlindSide" Speculative Execution Attack

Security researchers from Amsterdam have publicly detailed "BlindSide" as a new speculative execution attack vector for both Intel and AMD processors...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=BlindSide

[Raka555]

Can we get a 5Ghz Cortex-A53, please...

[chuckula]

So if the kernel has buffer overrun vulnerabilities then it's vulnerable to this wacky attack too... I would say that the buffer overflow is the real problem here.

[Danny3]

Oh come on, not again!

[pranav]

c o o l

[Jabberwocky]

Oh come on, not again!

Not sure why you are surprised. I would be surprised if this is last one that will be found.

[boxie]

this is pretty neat research, I wonder what sort of mitigations can be put in place and what the perf hit will be.

[NotMine999]

Can we get a 5Ghz Cortex-A53, please...

And if that wish of yours is proven to also suffer from these flaws? Then what?

[Vistaus]

An attack that works on an AMD CPU? Is this fake news or what? 'Cause everyone, esp. on this site, keeps saying AMD is 100% safe against this kind of stuff...

[S.Pam]

Is this attack even plausible? Seems it is dependent on other faults first?