"ZombieLoad": a new set of speculative-execution attacks

Posted May 14, 2019 23:08 UTC (Tue) by jcm (subscriber, #18262)
Parent article: "ZombieLoad": a new set of speculative-execution attacks

The papers are summarized in RIDL/ZombieLoad (fill buffer attack), and Fallout (Store Buffer). The researchers published their papers at http://mdsattacks.com and http://cpu.fail.

I wrote a blog that includes some detail about the uarch behavior for those interested, here: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/understanding-mds-vulnerab...