According to a publication by the German tech website heise.de, Intel processors are affected by eight new ones vulnerabilities “Specter-class”.
The site says the bugs have already been assigned CVE IDs and that at least one of them will be revealed by Google's Project Zero on May 7, the day before Microsoft's Patch Tuesday.
The site reports that it has concrete evidence that Intel processors are vulnerable to new vulnerabilities and that AMD processors may also be vulnerable. According to the publication, it is now reported that further investigations are being conducted on the latter.
Meanwhile, Intel issued a statement entitled "Troubleshooting Additional Security Issues".
"The protection of data of our customers and ensuring the safety of our products are critical priorities for us. We are working closely with customers, partners, other chip manufacturers and researchers to understand and mitigate any issues identified," said Leslie Culbertson, Intel vice president.
We strongly believe in the value of coordinated disclosure and we will share additional details about possible issues as we complete our investigations. As a best practice, we continue to encourage everyone to keep their systems up to date.
According with Heise, four of the vulnerabilities have been rated "high risk" and, as with previously identified Specter flaws, affect cloud providers due to the potential attacks to a host system from a virtual machine, allowing an attacker to obtain passwords from the host's memory.
Recall that the Specter Variant 2 flaw affected Cloud companies because it could be used to bypass the hypervisor. Fixing it required micro updatescode from Intel and AMD.
Heise reports that although the first Spectre vulnerabilities were difficult to exploit, 8 novices can be more easily used.
It should also be mentioned that Intel has not yet confirmed that it is trying to repair the specific vulnerabilities.
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