03-04-2018, 05:31 AM
https://www.neowin.net/news/spectre-has-...-intel-sgx
Quote:Ohio State University researchers have uncovered a new variant of the Spectre vulnerability and documented it in a recently released paper. The new menace is dubbed SgxPectre. It allows the safe areas created by SGX to be cracked open like nuts. Their research shows that Intel SGX is not all it's cracked up to be and is vulnerable to attack.
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The ray of light is, like the original Meltdown-Spectre vulnerabilities themselves, SgxPectre can be mitigated over time. This mitigation will come on March 16th in the form of a new SGX software development kit (SDK) and microcode updates for affected microprocessors. Let's just pray Intel gets it right out of the gate this time, unlike the first attempt.