Theo on the latest Intel issues
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Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)posted to the tech@ mailing list with some background on how the latest discovered Intel CPUissues relate to OpenBSD.
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:31:16 -0600From: Theo de Raadt [elided]To: tech@openbsd.orgSubject: CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646These 3 issues all relate to a bug in Intel cpusThe cpu will speculatively honour invalid PTE against data in theon-core L1 cache. Memory disclosure occurs into the wrong context.These 3 issues (CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646) togetherare the currently public artifacts of this one bug.