Downfall (security 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, 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. 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.

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