An Analysis on Effects after Mitigating Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities

Abstract

Meltdown and Spectre are two of the most dangerous vulnerabilities that are discovered by the researchers of google from “Google zero project”. These vulnerabilities are hardware based processor vulnerability. Sensitive information’s like username, password, email and many other necessary data can be disclosed by the proper execution of side channel attacks. As these vulnerabilities are mainly hardware based processors vulnerability, its proper mitigations are only possible if hardware architecture modifications are performed. However, patching the system is the only solution. Although respective vendors has already released patches to mitigate the effects, that resulting continuously slowing down the system and reducing the performance.