Macworld

‘Downfall’ and Intel Macs: What you need to know about the flaw and fix

Remember those serious Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws from about five years ago? Well, Intel’s in hot water again with another serious vulnerability that affects years worth of processors. Known as ...
GIGAZINE

A vulnerability ``Downfall'' that may leak information to Intel CPUs is discovered, and the risk of extracting confidential information such as data and passwords

Named 'Downfall', the Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE-ID) for this vulnerability is ' CVE-2022-40982 '. The CPUs affected by Downfall are those between Intel's 6th generation CPU ``Skylake'' ...
ExtremeTech

Intel Releases a Patch for 'Downfall' Vulnerability Affecting Billions of CPUs

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TechRepublic

Intel Patches Widespread Processor Vulnerability

Intel has published a fix for a potential vulnerability that affected some Intel processors. The security flaw, named Reptar, causes “very strange behavior,” said Google’s Tavis Ormandy, who is one of ...
CSOonline

Intel patches high-severity CPU privilege escalation flaw

Intel has released microcode updates for several generations of mobile, desktop, and server CPUs to fix a vulnerability that can be exploited to trigger at the very least a denial-of-service condition ...