Spectre variants 3a and 4

Intel has, finally, disclosed two more Spectre variants, called 3a and 4. The first ("rogue system register read") allows system-configuration registers to be read speculatively, while the second ("speculative store bypass") could enable speculative reads to data after a store operation has been speculatively ignored. Some more information on variant 4 can be found in the Project Zero bug tracker. The fix is to install microcode updates, which are not yet available.

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