is a hardware vulnerability that affects modern microprocessors using branch prediction and speculative execution . It breaks the isolation between different applications by forcing a victim program to speculatively execute operations that would not occur during correct program execution. This speculative execution leaves measurable traces in the CPU’s cache, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information (e.g., passwords, cryptographic keys) from kernel memory or other processes.
Spectre is harder to mitigate than Meltdown and affects virtually every high-performance CPU. spectre 10
To keep execution pipelines full, CPUs predict the outcome of conditional branches and execute the predicted path before the branch condition is resolved. If the prediction is wrong, the CPU rolls back architectural state (registers, memory writes), but (e.g., cache state) may remain. Spectre is harder to mitigate than Meltdown and
Example command (Linux):
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: For systems where microcode updates are available, apply them to ensure the CPU's speculative execution behavior is secured.