Google Cloud Warns Three AMD Turin CPU Flaws Could Leak Data Across Processes in VMs
Google Cloud VMs on AMD Turin chips vulnerable to three CPU side-channel flaws.
Google Cloud has warned of three CPU side-channel flaws affecting AMD Turin chips used in Google Cloud VMs. While Google has mitigated attacks between VMs and the host, an attacker with code on the same processor core could infer data from other processes or the kernel within a VM. A guest OS patch and a stop-and-start operation are recommended for affected VMs.
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