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Intel Posts New Linux Patches To Reduce Overhead Of VMSCAPE Mitigation


Earlier this month the VMSCAPE CPU security vulnerability was made public and affecting both AMD and Intel processors

Earlier this month the VMSCAPE CPU security vulnerability was made public and affecting both AMD and Intel processors. VMSCAPE can lead to leaking information from a user-space hypervisor via speculative side channels. This improvement is relevant for BHI variant of VMSCAPE that affect Alder Lake and newer processors.

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