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OpenStack Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

What are Meltdown and Spectre ?

Meltdown and Spectre are the brand names of a series of vulnerabilities discovered by various security researchers around performance optimization techniques built in modern CPUs. Those optimizations (involving superscalar capabilities, out-of-order execution, and speculative branch prediction) fundamentally create a side-channel that can be exploited to …