Apple Security Advisory 2018-1-8-3 - Safari 11.0.2 is now available and and addresses security issues relating to Spectre.
6a0e6b5a0291d9d29a511d5ac88e1e33fb091e444b41c1d05731905fd88b552cApple Security Advisory 2018-1-8-2 - macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Supplemental Update includes security improvements to Safari and WebKit to mitigate the effects of Spectre.
d853f93e1e71c9aa8d886a2aeccf078dfaa905ed2a74523bb075a36373aaeaf3Apple Security Advisory 2018-1-8-1 - iOS 11.2.2 is now available and and addresses Spectre issues with Safari and WebKit.
14100c950dadca4bf5143083ee95bc72573920f161f07761ce065fa637ff4c25This is a note from the FreeBSD team that they were notified of the issue in late December and received a briefing under NDA with the original embargo date of January 9th. Since they received relatively late notice of the issue, their ability to provide fixes is delayed.
6ca4e042704f1c11c5f3b11989e130de889f46523779b326d9cbaf056da654caUbuntu Security Notice 3516-1 - It was discovered that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack, and that this could be exploited in web browser JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information from other domains, bypassing same-origin restrictions.
0ed258fac8391ebdb3640c895289db1d7c69d495280ee9f65578004df6a1089dWhitepaper called Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution. It discusses how to trick error-free applications into giving up secret information.
d1a3c8c49faea6321bd01e706e0957012c18a94e1a187f1a5477c0e82270dc51Spectre information disclosure proof of concept exploit that affects multiple CPUs.
473bf133f40fdcb9c9fa158c19b9d4681907d8e8c18230aea02e37e689ee7f95This is the very thorough blog write-up discussing three variants of side-channel attacks that can be leveraged against CPU data cache timing.
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