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by CGamesPlay 3094 days ago
The RAM manufacturers, for building their circuits too small? Or Intel, for allowing a side-channel attack to exist? Or Linux, for assuming that randomizing some pointers would mitigate any side-channel? This bug is definitely a product of lots of different issues coming together.
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Zardoz84 3094 days ago
> Linux, for assuming that randomizing some pointers would mitigate any side-channel?

Windows, *BSD and macOS are having the same kind of patches.

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simion314 3094 days ago
We do not know the details about the bug, it may not be the RAM chips but from the AMD dev commit it seems that Intel CPUs perform some insecure optimizations.
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