Speculative Load Vulnerability in AMD Processors: Potential Data Leakage through Memory Re-ordering

Speculative Load Vulnerability in AMD Processors: Potential Data Leakage through Memory Re-ordering

CVE-2021-26400 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

AMD processors may speculatively re-order load instructions which can result in stale data being observed when multiple processors are operating on shared memory, resulting in potential data leakage.

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