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INTERRUPT INJECTION Bypasses Spectre v2 Mitigations on Linux x86

2026-08-07 00:21 UTC · The Hacker News · read the source ↗ #spectre-v2#cpu-vulnerability#side-channel
  • Engineer — Learn: MIT CSAIL research shows a timing gap in branch-predictor sanitization can be re-poisoned by a local unprivileged process, defeating default Spectre v2 mitigations on AMD Zen 2 and Intel; no patch or workaround is available yet, but engineers running multi-tenant Linux workloads should track vendor microcode and kernel responses as they emerge.
  • SOC/IR — Skip
  • Leader — Skip
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