Linux kernel on Intel systems is susceptible to Spectre v2 attacks

Overview A new cross-privilege Spectre v2 vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution has been discovered. CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution that are vulnerable to Spectre v2 branch history injection BHI are likely affected. An unauthenticated...

Description of the security update for SQL Server 2016 CU: January 6, 2018

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