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Stuffing the return stack buffer

Stuffing the return stack buffer

Posted Jul 24, 2022 17:44 UTC (Sun) by Paf (subscriber, #91811)
In reply to: Stuffing the return stack buffer by izbyshev
Parent article: Stuffing the return stack buffer

Which seems fine, since if the CPU designers were involved, it’s probably ok for existing CPUs and fixed in future, right?

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Stuffing the return stack buffer

Posted Jul 24, 2022 18:14 UTC (Sun) by izbyshev (subscriber, #107996) [Link]

I can't find any indications of Intel CPU designers being involved in this mitigation, but from what I could understand, the newest CPUs are not affected, so, indeed, the mitigation has to work only on a known set of CPUs.


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