Spectre

securityprogramming

A 2018 class of attacks abusing CPU speculative execution to leak memory.

Spectre tricks a processor into speculatively accessing data it should not, then reads it through cache side channels. It affected nearly all modern CPUs and forced deep changes in browsers, operating systems, and hardware design.

Also known as: Spectre, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715

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