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AMD Warns of New Transient Scheduler Attacks Impacting a Wide Range of CPUs (thehackernews.com)

submitted 5 days ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That said, exploiting these flaws requires an attacker to obtain malicious access to a machine and possess the ability to run arbitrary code. It's not exploitable through malicious websites.

and it probably has to attack through the virtual machine environment

In a worst-case scenario, successful attacks carried out using TSA-L1 or TSA-SQ flaws could lead to information leakage from the operating system kernel to a user application, from a hypervisor to a guest virtual machine, or between two user applications.

so it is a far fetched exploit needing specific conditions that are generally not available for 99% of the machines outside the lab where this is happening.

its FUD

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 9 points 5 days ago

It's pretty relevant to hosting providers, especially VPS providers. But if you have an AMD processor in your home PC / laptop, not really relevant to you.