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58 hardware vulnerabilities: A guide to the threats
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Summary
A 2018 article surveys hardware vulnerabilities, starting with Meltdown and Spectre, which bypass the OS boundary between kernel and user memory through speculative execution. It then lists CPU and DRAM flaws found before and after Meltdown, including Spectre variant 1 (CVE-2017-5753) and Spectre variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715). The source text is cut off before the list is complete.
Mitigation
Spectre variant 2 requires CPU microcode updates, applied through BIOS/UEFI updates or by the operating system at every reboot. Meltdown variant 3 (CVE-2017-5754) is fixed by operating system updates enforcing kernel page-table isolation (KPTI). Meltdown-GP (CVE-2018-3640) requires microcode updates. Some hardware flaws can only be fully mitigated by releasing new components.