x86/Intel: Gather Data Sampling

ISSUE DESCRIPTION A researcher has discovered Gather Data Sampling, a transient execution side-channel whereby the AVX GATHER instructions can forward the content of stale vector registers to dependent instructions. The physical register file is a structure competitively shared between sibling...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize input parameters while registering memory regions from user space via the uverbs API. A local user with access to a...