Impact of the outage: Intel was aware of the risks associated with AVX chips and failed to act, says a legal complaint – hardware.developpez.com
The Downfall vulnerability, also known as Gather Data Sampling (GDS) by Intel, is one of the latest vulnerabilities identified in Intel processors. It exposes users to possible malicious attacks and the vulnerability affects most 6th to 11th generation Intel processors. This vulnerability is related to the speculative execution of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) instructions, which … [Read more…]