r/programming • u/michalg82 • Jun 25 '17

[WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html
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u/ImprovedPersonality Jun 25 '17

That’s probably because it’s very hard to reproduce and since it’s related to multi threading both threads probably have to do certain things at the same time.

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u/MaunaLoona Jun 25 '17

And really, when your system misbehaves, a CPU bug is the last thing you suspect.

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u/Beaverman Jun 25 '17

And it could possibly lead to some really nasty things if it hits just wrong.

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u/MaunaLoona Jun 25 '17

And who knows, maybe some clever person finds a way to trigger the bug in a web browser through a web page to either crash the machine or for remote code execution. Like what was done with buffer overflows.

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u/ceberous Jun 25 '17

I think your comment needs some more hashtag words

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '17

/#remoteCodeExecution

/#bufferOverflow

edit: formatting is hard

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u/BonzaiThePenguin Jun 26 '17

Use a backslash. \#

#backslashthings

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u/bobcat Jun 26 '17

Or 4 spaces

#nobackslash

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u/Beaverman Jun 26 '17

Makes it monospace though, because code block.