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Re: Spectre/Meltdown impact on network devices


From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:57:21 +0900

William Herrin wrote:

Meltdown and Spectre are privilege escalation flaws. If you can induce the
physical hardware to run arbitrary code you provide at an unprivileged
level, they can be used to extract information from other processes or
virtual machine containers running at different (higher) privilege levels.

So, spectre should be fatal to cloud business.

                                                Masataka Ohta


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