On August 14, fixes for CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646 were released into the Ubuntu Xenial and Bionic kernels. These CVEs are security vulnerabilities caused by flaws in the design of speculative execution hardware in the computer's CPU. Researchers discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be visible to other processes running on the same core.
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