CHIPMAKER PATCH TUESDAY: INTEL, AMD, ARM RESPOND TO NEW CPU ATTACKS

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

Intel, AMD, and Arm have released security advisories on CPU vulnerabilities, including a branch privilege injection issue (CVE-2024-45332) that revives Spectre-BTI attacks on Intel processors. Intel is issuing microcode updates for this vulnerability and others identified by ETH Zurich and VU Amsterdam, which found three new Spectre v2 attacks that undermine domain isolation. In total, Intel patched 25 additional advisories for various high and medium-severity vulnerabilities, while AMD addressed several high-severity flaws in its Manageability Tools and CPU Libraries.