Downfall vulnerability impacts various Intel microprocessors and enables encryption keys, passwords, and other sensitive data exfiltration. The flaw was dubbed CVE-2022-40982 and was reported to Intel by security researcher Daniel Moghimi. The researcher provided a proof-of-concept that leverages the Gather instruction in two ways. Intel released patches for the Downfall vulnerability that impacts recently sold […]
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