Spectre/Meltdown impact on network devices

• Subject: Spectre/Meltdown impact on network devices
• From: bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)
• Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 00:47:35 -0500
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On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Masataka Ohta <
mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:

> William Herrin wrote:
>
>> Meltdown and Spectre are privilege escalation flaws. If you can induce the
>> physical hardware to run arbitrary code you provide at an unprivileged
>> level, they can be used to extract information from other processes or
>> virtual machine containers running at different (higher) privilege levels.
>>
>
> So, spectre should be fatal to cloud business.


Doubt it. But they are the ones who'll have to scramble fastest to patch.

It's also really giving browser devs a bad day since it provides yet
another escalation out of the javascript sandbox.

-Bill


-- 
William Herrin ................ herrin at dirtside.com  bill at herrin.us
Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>

• References:
  • Spectre/Meltdown impact on network devices
    • From: jean at ddostest.me (Jean | ddostest.me)
  • Spectre/Meltdown impact on network devices
    • From: bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)
  • Spectre/Meltdown impact on network devices
    • From: mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)

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