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4 vulnerabilities and exposures affect Intel-based systems; Red Hat responds

Red Hat issued a security advisory on recently disclosed CVEs (common vulnerabilities and exposures) in Intel microprocessors. Four vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed related to Intel microprocessors. These vulnerabilities allow unprivileged attackers to bypass restrictions to gain read access to privileged memory. They include these common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs): CVE-2018-12126 – a flaw that could lead to information … Read more

Foreshadow mitigation obscures licensing impact

Performance of virtual machines could be severely affected by the workaround for Intel’s latest processor flaw. To compensate, more processors will be needed. Businesses running Intel-powered servers in their datacentres may need to buy one-third more server licences to ensure system performance is not reduced after applying the Foreshadow fix. Mitigation against the recent Intel … Read more