On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 02:16:32AM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > For intel GPUs, except GEN8 (Broadwell), this week's vulnerability > is being covered at Phoronix. Ostensibly, information disclosure to > a local unprivileged user and possible DoS. At this point it is > unclear if this vulnerability can be accessed by malicious code > running in a web browser, so perhaps only relevant to people hosting > virtual systems. >
More details of the vulnerability at https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-iGPU-Leak-Details For desktops, it seems to be limited to fingerprinting the machine. For Gen7 there was apparently a second set of patches, but currently concerned with correctness and not yet ready for submission - with the hope that performance problems can be fixed before it is ready for submission. ĸen -- The politics of wizardry were either very simple, and resolved by someone ceasing to breathe, or as complex as one ball of yarn in a room with three bright-eyed little kittens. - Unseen Academicals -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
