Do the meltdown bug affect consoles?

Do the meltdown bug affect consoles?

oh no my passwords and important information will be visible to all ring 3 applications OH WAIT I'M PLAYING VIDEO GAMES

The blog post in your image is referring to 3 different exploits. Google's Project Zero discovered 3 different exploits in CPUs and they disclosed these exploits to Intel, AMD and the ARM holding group in June 2017. The first 2 exploits Google refers to as "Spectre", these exploits work on all x86 CPUs, and work on all ARM CPUs, Spectre variant 1 is able to be easily patched, Spectre variant 2 is unpatchable and will require a full hardware redesign to fix, affects everything even back to the 90s, it does seem however this exploit is rather hard to actually do. The 3rd exploit Google refers to as "Meltdown", this exploit works on every Intel CPU since Westmere in 2010 to the just released Coffee Lake, Intel is unable to patch this exploit with a microcode update, the only solution is for kernel maintainers (ie, Microsoft, Apple, and the Linux kernel team, and anyone else that plans to use an Intel CPU in their machines) to completely rewrite their kernel (the software that directly accesses hardware resources) in a way to compensate for the flaw.

Scary. But as long as no one I know in real life steals my valuables or knows my passwords I really don't care.

Your credit card information is likely to be on your system

consoles use amd so no

goygle are lying, amd have confirmed they are safe

Meltdown only affects Intel.

Spectre is not a bug and affects a wider range of CPUs. AMD says they are not vulnerable to this.

Meltdown is Intel only. Spectre might affect consoles which might help with cracking them

>We have empirically verified the vulnerability of several Intel processors to Spectre attacks, including Ivy Bridge, Haswell and Skylake based processors. We have also verified the attack’s applicability to AMD Ryzen CPUs. Finally, we have also successfully mounted Spectre attacks on several Samsung and Qualcomm processors (which use an ARM architecture) found in popular mobile phones.
It's right in the paper.

Enjoy taking the 30% hit with us AMDrones , but unlike you we can take it

The performance hit is only on Intel you dumbass

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>Intel only
>image clearly says AMD and ARM

>Believing the company selling you the product over the company doing independent research
LMAO

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What the fuck is going on? Is this because of a windows update?

There are three vulnerabilities, spectre and meltdown, spectre affects everything but is easily patched via software,

meltdown has two levels and only affects Intel CPUs.

MS needs to make changes to the kernel which will affect everyone

the statements aren't conflicting.
The researchers found AMD processors to be vulnerable.
AMD agrees but has a fix for the vulnerability.

They can make it intel specific so it doesn't affect amd

MY CORN

>spectre affects everything but is easily patched via software
>even though the name Spectre literally comes from the fact that it isn't easily patched and will haunt us for a long time
AMD shills are really at defcon 1 right now aren't they?

It's an issue that's existed since the technology started being used, but nobody found it until just this year.

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1 is easily fixed by software on all systems
2 has no evidence to be spotted on AMD CPUs to date
3 ZERO FUCKING CHANGE

This is Intel and Intel only fucking issue.

The scary part is that this also affects ARM processors that are in Android phones and all kinds of other devices that will never get a patch.

>buying digital

The only console that might be vulnerable to meltdown is the OG Xbox Hueg.