Intel L1 Terminal Fault Security Vulnerability

Intel L1 Terminal Fault Security Vulnerability

The following resources should be helpful in understanding the Intel L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability announced today.

VMware KB 55636:  VMware Overview of ‘L1 Terminal Fault’ (L1TF) Speculative-Execution vulnerabilities in Intel processors: CVE-2018-3646, CVE-2018-3620, and CVE-2018-3615 (55636)

Patching for CVE-2018-3646 “L1TF – VMM” could have performance impacts in customer virtualization environments.  Refer to VMware KB 55806 for further details.

Overview video from Intel:

More detailed video from RedHat:

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