A new vulnerability was published for Intel CPU (Discovered 1 year ago but kept under secrecy until then). Apparently, downfall attacks allows to leak data across users, VM, etc running on the same CPU core.
A well-written page describing the issue can be found at https://downfall.page/
Also a paper written by the security researcher @flowyroll is available https://downfall.page/media/downfall.pdf
#GDS #CVE #CVE202240982
#downfall #CPU #intel #kernel #linux