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IntelCPUs are still vulnerable to Spectre attacks, despite both hardware and software mitigations, new research has claimed.
The predictive features goal was to make the gadget faster.
Open source effort
They call the new technique InSpectre Gadget.
It looks for gadgets - code snippets, even on devices with Spectre protections set up.
The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-2201 and allegedly works against all Intel CPUs.
InSpectre Gadget is an open source tool, the researchers added.
“Our efforts led to the discovery of 1,511 Spectre gadgets and 2,105 so-called ‘dispatch gadgets.
Spectre is a critical vulnerability discovered back in 2018, together with the Meltdown flaw.
It was said that a mechanism which allowed modern CPUs to work faster was leaking sensitive data.
Mitigations also resulted in some devices working slower.
