IBM Power9 processors beset by Cardiac Osprey data-leaking flaw as Spectre still haunts speculative chips
Patch if you can: Fix available Updated IBM Power9 processors, intended for data centers and mainframes, are potentially vulnerable to abuse of their speculative execution capability. The security shortcoming could allow a local user to access privileged information.…
Date: 2020-11-20
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