39 Hardware Vulnerabilities: A Guide To The Threats
CSO Online, Monday, July 15th, 2024
Meltdown and Spectre raised the alarm over vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit in popular hardware. This list, though not comprehensive, presents the most significant CPU and DRAM threats.
In January 2018, the entire computer industry was put on alert by two new processor vulnerabilities dubbed Meltdown and Spectre that defeated the fundamental OS security boundaries separating kernel and user space memory. The flaws stemmed from a performance feature of modern CPUs known as speculative execution and mitigating them required one of the biggest patch coordination efforts in history, involving CPU makers, device manufacturers and operating system vendors.