PT-2026-40778

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AMD Zen 2-based products affected versions not specified Description Improper isolation of shared resources within the CPU operation op/µop cache on Zen 2-based products can cause incorrect instructions to be executed at a higher privilege...

Spectre attacks come back from the dead

Spectre is the name for a whole class of vulnerabilities discovered in January 2018 that affected huge numbers of modern computer processors that rely on a performance feature called speculative execution. Since then, some of the world’s most talented computer scientists from industry and academi...

AMD RESPONSE TO “I see dead µops: leaking secrets via Intel/AMD micro-op caches” RESEARCH PAPER

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-1006 Summary AMD has reviewed the research paper and believes existing mitigations were not being bypassed and no new mitigations are required. AMD recommends its existing side-channel mitigation guidance and standard secure coding practices be followed. CVE Details None...

New Attacks Slaughter All Spectre Defenses

All defenses against Spectre side-channel attacks can now be considered broken, leaving billions of computers and other devices just as vulnerable today as they were when the hardware flaw was first announced three years ago. A paper published on Friday by a team of computer scientists from the...