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via @eliderp
(note: may be loud)
(note: may be loud)
Intel fucks up yet again. When will they learn that cutting corners will eventually be exploited?
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/understanding-mds-vulnerability-what-it-why-it-works-and-how-mitigate-it
https://mdsattacks.com/
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/understanding-mds-vulnerability-what-it-why-it-works-and-how-mitigate-it
https://mdsattacks.com/
Redhat
Understanding the MDS vulnerability: What it is, why it works and how to mitigate it
What's the Microprocessor Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerability? How does it work? How do you mitigate it? Read on to find out.
the tl;dr is that this is somewhat like using uninitialized memory to grab sensitive data from when it was last used by other methods - except this time it works across processes, and privilege boundaries
https://i.selic.re/nsIxMji9.png
Note that only Intel CPUs are affected by this.
Note that only Intel CPUs are affected by this.
looks like telegram broke their backend again, all that's left is to wait until that whole thing is sorted