RCE

InfoSec Week 24, 2018

Yet another high severity attack against the Intel CPUs. Unpatched systems can leak SIMD, FP register state between privilege levels. These registers are used for private keys nowadays. The cost of a patch is more expensive context switches because the fix has to unload and reload all SIMD, FP state.

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InfoSec Week 4, 2018

Electron applications designed to run on Windows that register themselves as the default handler for a protocol, like Skype, Slack and others, are vulnerable to the remote code execution vulnerability.

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