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		0cf8612b2e1e on July 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zenbleed If you pin the VM to a different core/CPU, would that do anything to mitigate? Or are the OS affinity guarantees not that strong?

saagarjha on July 24, 2023 [–]

In this case, it would avoid the exploit, because it requires a shared register file.

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