Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 09:14:17 +0000 From: Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel hardware bug Message-ID: <fd4dd222-4833-b6d7-32bb-c0cccba1cf54@multiplay.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20726.1515042417@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <20726.1515042417@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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On 04/01/2018 05:06, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > In message <2347560.AJVtGcUuTT@elisha.atlnet>, > Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net> wrote: > >> ... >> No, I mean their lame excuses, dances around the truth, claiming many other >> platforms AND OPERATING SYSTEMS do it too. 'Tain't so. This is hardware, INTEL >> hardware, and not an OS problem... > While it is clearly true, even from the current very preliminary reports, that > this is indeed a hardware issue, rather than an OS issue, you may want to reserve > judgement about the possibility that this thing is confined only to Intel hardware. > > Intel, of course, has said that they believe that this bug may also affect > AMD and also ARM CPUs. (But then they would say that, wouldn't they?) But > AMD, for its part, has already put out a public statement saying that their > CPUs are not affected. > > So now, the other shoe that we should all be expecting to drop, any time now, > is some public statement from ARM Holdings, PLC. If one has already been issued > by that company, then Google News doesn't seem to be giving me any easy way to > find it, and there is nothing of relevance on the ARM corporate web site > (www.arm.com). So I suspect that they haven't said anything yet, which is > itself a rather ominous data point. They already have: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html > > If it turns out that this same bug, or same sort of bug, also affects ARM-based > chips, then that is quite possibly an even bigger deal than the already obvious > Intel cataclysm. > > > Regards, > rfg >
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