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Downfall (security vulnerability)

See also: Transient execution CPU vulnerability
Downfall
CVE identifier(s)CVE-2022-40982
Affected hardware6-11th gen Intel Core CPUs, 1-4th gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs
Websitehttps://downfall.page/

Downfall, known as Gather Data Sampling (GDS) by Intel,[1] is a computer security vulnerability found in 6th through 11th generations of consumer and 1st through 4th generations of Intel Xeon Scalable x86-64 microprocessors.[2] It is a transient execution CPU vulnerability which relies on speculative execution of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) instructions to reveal the content of vector registers.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Gather Data Sampling / CVE-2022-40982 / INTEL-SA-00828". Intel. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  2. ^ "Affected Processors: Transient Execution Attacks & Related Security..." Intel. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
  3. ^ Newman, Lily Hay. "New 'Downfall' Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
  4. ^ Ilascu, Ionut (2023-08-08). "New Downfall attacks on Intel CPUs steal encryption keys, data". BleepingComputer. Retrieved 2023-08-08.

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