SLAM Attack: New Spectre-based Vulnerability Impacts Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs

December 9, 2023 at 07:12AM Researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam disclosed a new side-channel attack called SLAM, exploiting a feature in Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs. The exploit, an end-to-end Spectre-based attack, allows leakage of sensitive data from kernel memory. Intel, AMD, and Arm are working on mitigations, while existing and future CPUs are affected. … Read more