SWI-PSA-2018-001: Spectre/Meltdown Vulnerabilities

Jan 12, 2018 - Author: Sierra Wireless

Google Project Zero has released information regarding vulnerabilities in multiple modern CPU architectures that allow side-channel leakage of information through three variants identified as follows: 

  • Variant 1: bounds check bypass (CVE-2017-5753) 
  • Variant 2: branch target injection (CVE-2017-5715) 
  • Variant 3: rogue data cache load (CVE-2017-5754)