CVE-2017-5753

CVE-2017-5753 is part of the Spectre family (Variant 1) described in the SPECTRE_MELTDOWN_ADVISORY: it involves speculative execution and a bounds-check bypass that can enable an unprivileged attacker to read privileged memory via cache timing analysis. IBM’s AIX/VIOS advisories and iFixes addres...

CVE-2018-3639

CVE-2018-3639 is a speculative execution side‑channel vulnerability (SSB) that can leak memory via speculative stores. The Connected ALMA doc notes a mitigation: SSB is disabled by the new alt-java launcher, reducing impact at the cost of performance, and it references OpenJDK 8u282 as part of th...