Remember those severe Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs that were discovered nearly five years ago? Intel is once again in hot water due to a severe vulnerability that impacts chips dating back years.
The vulnerability, dubbed “Downfall,” exploits a flaw in the AVX vector extensions of every Intel CPU from Skylake to the most current 12th-generation Alder Lake chips.
Macs using these processors first appeared in late 2015, with the 21.5-inch iMac, and nearly every Intel-based Mac-desktop or laptop-since then has been affected. Apple started employing its own CPUs in 2020, rather than the newer 12th and 13th-generation Intel processors (which aren’t affected by the vulnerability anyhow).
What exactly is Downfall?
Daniel Moghimi, the researcher who identified the vulnerability, developed a microsite about it and summarises it as follows:
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