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Vulnerability Recap 7/8/24 – Intel, Cisco & More Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

It’s a regression of an 18-year-old flaw (CVE-2006-5051) that was reintroduced in October 2020. To improve security against side-channel attacks, securely use indirect branch predictor barrier (IBPB) and enhance the branch prediction unit (BPU) with more complicated tags, encryption, and randomization.

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