What is the vulnerability? Security researchers at Intel and in the wider tech industry have found a new species of vulnerability in Intel chips. Collectively called Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS), the vulnerability is a sub-class of previously disclosed speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities and is comprised of four related techniques. Under certain conditions, MDS provides a program that potentially means you can read data that the program otherwise would not be able to see. It's worth noting that practical exploitation of MDS is a very complex undertaking. MDS does not, by itself, provide an attacker with a way to choose…
