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[-] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

FLOP abuses the LVP in a way that allows the attacker to run functions with the wrong argument—for instance, a memory pointer rather than an integer.

is this a vulnerability in the software? So patching this won't require disabling speculative execution?

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Hardware. There's a load value predictor that guesses the value of a load from memory

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