Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability

Posted Aug 14, 2018 18:29 UTC (Tue) by clopez (guest, #66009)
Parent article: Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability

This only affects Intel CPUs... AMD is safe.. right?

Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability

Posted Aug 14, 2018 18:32 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

That is my understanding, yes; this only only affects Intel.

Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability

Posted Aug 14, 2018 18:58 UTC (Tue) by danpb (subscriber, #4831) [Link]

Correct, this only affects Intel x86 CPUs. AMD x86 is not affected, nor are non-x86 architectures.

Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability

Posted Aug 15, 2018 15:31 UTC (Wed) by Curan (subscriber, #66186) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, only Intel is affected, according to the kernel documentation.

Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability

Posted Aug 15, 2018 23:25 UTC (Wed) by rahvin (guest, #16953) [Link]

The developer of the hack only evaluated Intel, they think AMD does it different so it's probably not vulnerable but I would like to see someone come out and say they tested this hack and it's variants of this technique on AMD before we completely clear it.