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Foreshadow

Foreshadow, known as L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) by Intel, is a vulnerability that affects modern microprocessors that was first discovered by two independent teams of researchers in January 2018, but was first disclosed to the public on 14 August 2018. The vulnerability is a speculative execution attack on Intel processors that may result in the disclosure…

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Affected hardware
Modern Intel processors
Date discovered
January 2018; 8 years ago (2018-01)

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Foreshadow

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples41
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
Components1

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Foreshadow

Top relations

related to Mechanism · 19
Foreshadow → CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646, For Foreshadow, Foreshadow-NG, Intel, L1 Terminal Fault, L1TF, OS, OS Kernel, SGX, SMM, Speculative, System Management Mode, The Foreshadow, There, Usually, VMM, VMs
has impact · 8
Foreshadow → According, AMD, Core, Intel, Meltdown, Nonetheless, SGX, Spectre
related to External links · 7
Foreshadow → FSA, Official, Overview, Red Hat, Technical, YouTube, YouTubeForeshadow
related to Further reading · 3
Foreshadow → FSA, Technical, USENIX
Affected hardware · 1
Foreshadow → Modern Intel processors
CVE identifiers · 1
Foreshadow → CVE-.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-col…
Date discovered · 1
Foreshadow → January 2018; 8 years ago (2018-01)
Website · 1
Foreshadow → foreshadowattack.eu

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intel may security processors 2018 sgx vulnerabilities affected vulnerability according data execution researchers august flaws software discovered spectre amd meltdown

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ForeshadowAffected hardwareModern Intel processors1.00infobox
ForeshadowCVE identifiersCVE-.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-col…1.00infobox
ForeshadowDate discoveredJanuary 2018; 8 years ago (2018-01)1.00infobox
ForeshadowWebsiteforeshadowattack.eu1.00infobox
Foreshadowhas impactSpectre0.60section
Foreshadowhas impactIntel0.60section
Foreshadowhas impactAMD0.60section
Foreshadowhas impactMeltdown0.60section
Foreshadowhas impactAccording0.60section
Foreshadowhas impactNonetheless0.60section
Foreshadowhas impactSGX0.60section
Foreshadowhas impactCore0.60section

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