Intel Corporation designs processors and platforms whose firmware, microcode, and hardware flaws can affect system security, isolation, and data protection.
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Intel Corporation is a semiconductor designer whose processors, chipsets, firmware, and platform components underpin many servers, PCs, and embedded systems. In security news, the tag usually concerns vulnerabilities or mitigations affecting this hardware and its supporting software, rather than “intel” meaning threat intelligence.
Security impact can arise below the operating-system boundary: speculative-execution flaws may expose data through side channels, while firmware or platform-management weaknesses can enable privilege escalation or persistence in some configurations. Intel security advisories, operating-system updates, BIOS or UEFI releases, and microcode updates (small processor-control patches) therefore form a coordinated remediation chain. Administrators should inventory affected processor generations and firmware versions, apply trusted updates where applicable, and assess performance or compatibility trade-offs. Researchers and defenders may also need to distinguish hardware limitations from software bugs when investigating suspected exploitation.
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A 16-year-old Linux kernel vulnerability, dubbed Januscape, allows attackers to escape a virtual machine and execute arbitrary code on the host. [...]
Januscape: A 16-year-old Linux KVM flaw lets cloud VM tenants crash hosts and potentially escape guests. It affects Intel and AMD systems. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim has published details of a use-after-free vulnerability in Linux’s KVM hypervisor that allows code running inside a guest virtual machine to corrupt host kernel memory. The bug, tracked as […]
A use-after-free bug in Linux's KVM hypervisor can be triggered from a guest virtual machine to corrupt the shadow-page state of the host kernel that runs it