Newly identified PACMAN flaw in Apple M1 CPU can’t be patched [TechSpot]

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Led by MIT’s Mengjia Yan, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) created the novel attack using a combination of memory corruption and speculative execution to bypass the M1’s security. The research team’s proof of concept also demonstrated the attack’s effectiveness against the CPU kernel, which…