Re: upcoming intel issue

To: jericho <jericho@attrition.org>, "Landfield, Kent" <Kent_Landfield@McAfee.com>
Subject: Re: upcoming intel issue
From: Art Manion <amanion@cert.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 17:51:28 -0500
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On 1/3/18 5:25 PM, Art Manion wrote:

So first, what is the vulnerability (or vulnerabilities) -- things that 
warrant a CVE ID, and second who is responsible for assigning IDs?


https://meltdownattack.com/

CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-5754

Not immediately populated, so not sure what the distinctions are.

 - Art

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