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Can a meltdown attack also violate data integrity of other processes or is it just violating data secrecy?

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Minh Nguyen Nhat

Can a meltdown attack also violate data integrity of other processes by obtaining different passwords or is it just violating data secrecy by reading data it is unauthorized to do?

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Can Software-based fault isolation (SFI) prevent meltdown?

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Minh Nguyen Nhat

Suppose we have a complete implementation of SFI on a CPU hardware that is vulnerable to meltdown attacks that also happens to run a Linux kernel that is also vulnerable to meltdown attacks. Can SFI alone prevent these meltdown attacks fro… Continue reading Can Software-based fault isolation (SFI) prevent meltdown?→