On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Masataka Ohta < mo...@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 ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
