MICROARCHITECTURE DATA SAMPLING

Priority: High Executive Summary: Intel have publicly disclosed a set of vulnerabilities involving side-channel attacks which allow microarchitecture data sampling (MDS), affecting Intel microprocessors. The four vulnerabilities are similar to Spectre/Meltdown in nature. The issue exists in Intel’s implementation of simultaneous multithreading, named Hyper-Threading. Microprocessor performance is improved by splitting a single physical processor core […]