{"id":17034,"date":"2018-01-02T21:44:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T03:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17034"},"modified":"2018-01-02T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T03:44:45","slug":"kernel-memory-leaking-intel-processor-design-flaw-forces-linux-windows-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17034","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kernel memory leaking&#8217; Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A fundamental design flaw in Intel&#8217;s processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/01\/02\/intel_cpu_design_flaw\/\">&#8216;Kernel memory leaking&#8217; Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There were rumors of a severe hypervisor bug \u2013 possibly in Xen \u2013 doing the rounds at the end of 2017. It may be that this hardware flaw is that rumored bug: that hypervisors can be attacked via this kernel memory access cockup, and thus need to be patched, forcing a mass restart of guest virtual machines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fundamental design flaw in Intel&#8217;s processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug. Source: &#8216;Kernel memory leaking&#8217; Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign \u2022 The Register &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17034\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[942,114,160,217],"class_list":["post-17034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","tag-bugs","tag-computer-architecture","tag-intel","tag-kernel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17035,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17034\/revisions\/17035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}