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Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

by Lars Kurth blog.xenproject.org published 2018-01-045 min read

Updated to v3 on Dec 12th! Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users understand the impact and our next steps forward, we put together the

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