Spectre checker keeps up with the latest exploits
In a recent blog post, Detecting Spectre vulnerability exploits with static analysis, we showed how developers can use static analysis to help protect their applications from the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability (bounds check bypass). Synopsys Software Integrity Group released a checker for Coverity (AUDIT.SPECULATIVE_EXECUTION_DATA_LEAK) that helps developers identify vulnerable code. The result is increased protection against Spectre without the performance cost of completely forgoing speculative execution.
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