K95275140: OS Kernel and SMM mode L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability CVE-2018-3620

Security Advisory Description Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis...

Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...