Oh for fuck's sake more shitty names. Heartbleed was a great name and technical pun. Shellshock was boring. Meltdown is generic garbage. Spectre isn't even clever. "Skyfall", whatever it is, is even worse. Can we stop this race to the bottom please?https://twitter.com/11rcombs/status/953859524645015552 …
Nope. *Neither* of the two Spectre issues is specific to memory reads. One is about leaks from mispredicted direct branches, the other is about mistraining the indirect branch predictor to leak. Neither specifies *what* you leak and the possibilities depend on code sequences.
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The key point here is *branch misprediction*, not speculative execution. Speculative execution is the class of problem but branch misprediction is the specific situation that qualifies those specific vulns (as compared to Meltdown, which *is* about memory reads from the kernel).
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so i guess meltdown should be "branchread" and spectre should be "branchleak" and "branchtrain"
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