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SVG:Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities

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Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities


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This provides information that may be useful to sites concerning the various speculative execution vulnerabilities concerning intel chips and other processors.

See also EGI SVG Information on Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities related advisory Advisory-SVG-CVE-2017-5753 which was compiled in January and early February 2018. (This may later be merged into this page.)

EGI SVG has at present (7th September 2018) issued 3 advisories related to Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities Advisory-SVG-CVE-2018-3620 in August 2018, Advisory-SVG-CVE-2018-3639 in May 2018, and Advisory-SVG-CVE-2017-5753 in January 2018.


Date CVE Vulnerability Name EGI SVG Advisory


August 2018 CVE-2018-3620 L1TF - Speculative Execution Side Channel vulnerabilities concerning Intel processors Advisory-SVG-CVE-2018-3620



This provides information on the Intel L1TF vulnerability and other Intel vulnerabilities announced in August 2018.

EGI SVG L1TF and others related advisory


This provides links to information on the 4th variant of the Meltdown/Spectre CPU hole announced in May 2018 which may be useful to sites

EGI SVG Information on 4th Variant related advisory Advisory-SVG-CVE-2018-3639

Some useful info from us-cert

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-141A

This provides info on the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities made public in January 2018.

SVG compiled links to information which may be useful to EGI sites.

EGI SVG Information on Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities related advisory Advisory-SVG-CVE-2017-5753