TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA) - Vulnerability

Special Topics CPU Microcodes
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Hi Guys,

A “new” vulnerability has been introduced. Intel prepare new microcodes for a few processors.

links below :

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/…l-sa-00270.html

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/pu…idance-v1.0.pdf

Good Day

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TSX is found on Haswell and later CPU’s.

That’s a lot of CPU’s to patch.

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5 pages with benchmarks : https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a…ad-v2-taa&num=1