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Latest Intel CPUs impacted by new Indirector side-channel attack

Modern Intel processors, including chips from the Raptor Lake and the Alder Lake generations are susceptible to a new type of a high-precision Branch Target Injection (BTI) attack dubbed ‘Indirector,’ which could be used to steal sensitive information from the CPU. […]

Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only

The popular open source project, ‘ip’ had its GitHub repository archived, or made “read-only” by its developer as a result of a dubious CVE report filed for his project. Unfortunately, open-source developers have recently been met with an uptick in debatable or outright bogus CVEs filed for their projects. […]