Lightboard Lessons: Explaining the Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities
The "Spectre" and "Meltdown" vulnerabilities affect almost every computer in the world. One of the very interesting things about each of these vulnerabilities is that they target the hardware (proce...
Published Mar 20, 2018
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Mar 27, 2018Ret. Employee
F5_Digger, great question! As you noted, Spectre variant 1 and Meltdown are addressed in the 12.1.3.3 update. I believe Spectre variant 2 requires an update from chip providers, so we will continue to follow this one closely and provide updates on the KB article listed above. Thanks!