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Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities


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Purpose of this page

To provide useful links and other information concerning the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.

What are they?

These are vulnerabilities in the design of the chip hardware, and cannot be fully resolved by patching operating systems. However patches are available which mitigate these problems.

Meltdown affects most Intel chips, and has CVE-2017-5754

Spectre affects a wide range of chips, CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715.

These are described in the register at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/

https://meltdownattack.com/ and https://spectreattack.com/

CERN information

CERN has compiled information which is useful for may EGI sites

https://security.web.cern.ch/security/advisories/spectre-meltdown/spectre-meltdown.shtml


Intel Information

Product patches

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27431/Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-File


RedHat Information

RedHat description https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution


RedHat CVE info: [ https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5754 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5754]

[ https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753] [ https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715]