Update On The Spectre And Meltdown Patches For Power
January 15, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan
When it comes to the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution security vulnerabilities that hit as the new year was getting going, the important word to ponder is “mitigated.” Everyone is talking about mitigating the issue, but no one is using the word “fixed.” As we discussed last week, one of the two types of Spectre vulnerabilities – the Variant 2 known as branch target injection – is particularly tricky to hack and to fix, so IT vendors are choosing their words very carefully.
The odds were that unintended consequences for such a low-level fix will occur, so you can …
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