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Microsoft CVE-2017-5715: Guidance to mitigate speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities

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Microsoft CVE-2017-5715: Guidance to mitigate speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/03/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/01/2018
Modified
11/18/2021

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis.

Solution(s)

  • msft-adv180002_general_remediation_steps

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