Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan J. Wylie) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] arm64: spectre-v1 write fixes (CVE-2018-3693) | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:28:04 +0100 |
| |
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> writes:
> These patches inhibit spectre-v1-write gadgets found in arch/arm64, using the > same mitigation applied to existing spectre-v1-read gadgets. > > This issue is also known as CVE-2018-3693, or "bounds check bypass store". > More details can be found in the Arm Cache Speculation Side-channels > whitepaper, available from the Arm security updates site [1].
> [1] https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/speculative-processor-vulnerability
From that web page:
| Variant 1: bounds check bypass store (CVE-2017-5753) and bounds check | bypass store (CVE-2018-3693)
Isn't -5753 a "read" vulnerability, not "store"?
-- Alan J. Wylie https://www.wylie.me.uk/
Dance like no-one's watching. / Encrypt like everyone is. Security is inversely proportional to convenience
| |