Spectre attack mitigation on Linux systems can be bypassed by hackers using a new bug
1 April 2021
The security researchers Piotr Krysiuk of Symantec’s Threat Hunter team discovered two new vulnerabilities in the linux operating system. The first vulnerabilities have the capabilities to reveal content from any location within the kernel memory. And the second one can retrieve data up to 4GB from the kernel memory
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