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'007' code helps stop Spectre exploits before they exist

Jim Mitchell

What are the valid reasons for a user program to execute a cache flush instruction in the first place? As the article lists that as a requirement for successful exploitation of this issue, just checking for that instruction in a binary might be a good start.

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